Chief executive Annemarie O’Donnell received a £357,845; Elaine Galletly, former director of Legal and Administration, received a £223,065 pension contribution and £59,971 for “compensation for loss of office”; Carole Forrest, a former solicitor to the council, got a redundancy payment of £95,000; Anne Connolly, a former principal advisor to the chief executive got a pension and redundancy package of £191,767; and Robert Anderson, head of human resources, got a pension and redundancy deal worth £147,654.

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Ms O’Donnell paid back £317,000 earlier this year.

Legal firm Brodies conducted an investigation into the payments and found no evidence of officials having acted “improperly” but concluded that Ms O’Donnell’s exit was not “lawfully approved” in line with council rules.

Last week the Accounts Commission found the process which led to the payments  “fell short of the behaviour and standards expected of public servants”.

The commission found no evidence of misconduct, but concluded the process lacked scrutiny, transparency, and governance.

Susan Aitken, the leader of Glasgow City Council, has called on the former officials to pay back the money.

She told the Daily Record: “I am very angry about it.

“I wasn’t told about it because the very small number of individuals involved knew that I wouldn’t have approved it, that I wouldn’t have signed it off.

“It was done covertly. The information was not shared with senior politicians. It absolutely should have been. It was kept from us. That information was withheld.

“I was personally misled and personally lied to about it, or certainly about the situation around it.

“We have retrieved some of that money, I’m very glad to say. We continue to believe that all of the individuals involved should pay back. I think it would be the right thing to do.

“They should certainly, at the very least, look to their consciences and consider following in the footsteps of the former chief executive, who I think did look to her conscience and decided to pay it back.

“None of them had less than comfortable pensions to begin with. They were all senior officers. They don’t need this extra.”