Judge told a crime probe is in the public interest over malicious prosecutions in the failed Rangers fraud case Exclusive Judge told a crime probe is in the public interest over malicious prosecutions in the failed Rangers fraud case QUESTIONS emerged over whether there would be a public judge-led inquiry into the malicious prosecutions over the collapsed Rangers fraud case, as a former club administrator said it was in the public interest that there was a criminal probe. David Whitehouse has argued to a judge there should be a crime investigation after for the first time in Scottish legal history there were admissions of 'malicious and without probable cause' prosecutions.