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Incarcerated boss of charities payment platform intends to contest freezing orders, court hears

Summary

Peter Conlon, the managing director of the Dublin‑based charity‑fundraising platform Pembroke Dynamic Internet Services, is currently detained in a Swiss prison and intends to contest High Court orders that have frozen his assets, including bank accounts, valued at €3.8 million. The injunction was granted earlier this year after liquidator Myles Kirby, appointed to wind up the company over a €400,000 debt to Revenue, discovered that some €3.8 million donated through the platform had not reached the intended charities. Kirby alleges Conlon engaged in "very serious misconduct" by diverting company funds for personal use. Conlon, 63, has been formally served with the case documents while in the Swiss jail and has retained an Irish solicitor to represent him. The court has adjourned the case for several weeks, with a hearing scheduled for November, while the injunction remains in place pending the outcome of the application to keep it.

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What: Report matter: Incarcerated boss of charities payment platform intends to contest freezing orders, court hears. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision

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• Christmas Other
• 2018-10-11 Publication

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