Aoife Maguire convicted in Anglo accounts case

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A jury convicted Aoife Maguire and fellow former Anglo Irish Bank officials Tiarnan O'Mahoney and Bernard Daly on all seven counts in their case at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The verdicts were unanimous.

Maguire had been an assistant manager, O'Mahoney the chief operations officer and Daly the company secretary. All three had pleaded not guilty.

The proceedings were reported on 31 July 2015. Judge Patrick McCartan was due to sentence the defendants on 31 July 2015.

Their convictions included a conspiracy to destroy, mutilate or falsify documents about accounts held by John Peter O’Toole. He was the brother-in-law of Seán FitzPatrick, formerly the bank’s chief executive and chairman.

Maguire and O'Mahoney were also convicted of a conspiracy involving the destruction, mutilation or falsification of records for six other accounts linked to FitzPatrick. They were also convicted of conspiring to defraud Revenue over those accounts.

O'Mahoney and Daly were additionally convicted of deliberately giving Revenue inaccurate information on 17 November 2003. They had omitted O’Toole’s account from a list identifying non-resident accounts. This count alone carried a possible sentence of up to five years.

An anonymous caller to the Director of Public Prosecutions’ office claimed that Maguire was friends with the jury foreman’s wife, delaying delivery of the verdicts. The foreman denied the friendship when questioned by the judge, who refused an application to discharge the jury. The judge assigned no responsibility for the call to the defendants.

The judge refused bail for all three while they awaited sentencing, and Maguire was remanded in custody. He identified their convictions as his main consideration and expressed concern about the potential for mischief following the anonymous call.