2018-06-21 · Dublin
Depression over wife's death led to poor financial management, court hears
Brendan Delappe, 58, avoided jail after a suspended sentence of two and a half years for failing to pay €150,000 in tax. The court found his offences were not systemic fraud but stemmed from a poor business model and bad management, exacerbated by depression following his wife's death in 2008. Delappe had provided merchandising services, charged…