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The new board of the Otago Rugby Football Union is expected to be named today and is likely to include two faces from the old board.

The Office of the Auditor-general is looking at the trust embroiled in an alleged pokies funding scandal involving the Otago Rugby Football Union.

The new board of the Otago Rugby Football Union should be known by the end of the week.

Stadium opponent Bev Butler feels vindicated, and is calling for councillors who supported it to resign, plus forensic audits and an independent inquiry.

Otago Rugby Football Union board members Wayne Graham and Laurie Mains are together seeking more than $1 million in damages from Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull over allegations of defamation, court documents show.

Adam Thomson is a smart man but, as far he was concerned, helping the Otago Spirit was a no-brainer.

Healthy profits from the Otago Rugby Football Union's black-tie fundraising dinner went "into the pot" to pay the union's day-to-day business costs, rather than to creditors left out of pocket, it has been confirmed.

An unpaid bill for $25,000 worth of food and drink, accrued at an Otago Rugby Football Union black-tie dinner just months before the union admitted facing liquidation, has been labelled "scandalous" and "obscene".

The Otago Rugby Football Union has raised $500,000 to pay back small creditors, saying it is due to a massive amount of generosity shown by people right around the country.

The relationship between the financially troubled Otago Rugby Football Union and Auckland bars may be revealed as part of an "in-depth audit".