Bernard Daly, Aoife Maguire and Tiarnan O'Mahoney plead not guilty to Revenue charges

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Bernard Daly, Aoife Maguire and Tiarnan O'Mahoney were on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on charges of trying to hide accounts from Revenue. They have pleaded not guilty. The proceedings were reported on 21 July 2015.

The charges concerned accounts connected to former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick between March 2003 and December 2004. The trial was continuing before Judge Patrick McCartan.

Detective Sergeant Daniel McGinty gave evidence about interviewing Daly on 31 October 2013. Daly attended Ballymun Garda Station by arrangement and was not under arrest. Dominic McGinn SC, for the prosecution, read the interview into the record.

Daly told gardaí he was not involved in a conspiracy to hide accounts. He denied that either O'Mahoney or FitzPatrick had asked him to exclude accounts and said he was unaware of attempts or a conspiracy to delete accounts from the bank's system. He said he was not involved in IT.

On 20 July 2015, former senior IT manager Seamus McGill gave evidence that Maguire asked him to change names on client records. He said changes would leave an audit trail. He also said James Shaw, an associate director in IT, asked him to delete accounts in 2004 and said Maguire would supply the account details.

Under cross-examination by Patrick Gageby SC, for Maguire, McGill said he would not have accepted that Maguire had authority to request deletions without hearing from Shaw. He agreed that both he and Maguire were carrying out instructions relayed by Shaw.