Denis Casey loses Supreme Court appeal over Anglo conspiracy conviction

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The Supreme Court unanimously rejected Denis Casey’s appeal against his conviction for conspiracy to defraud over transactions intended to make Anglo Irish Bank appear to have received an extra €7.2 billion in customer deposits. Casey had been sentenced to two years and nine months’ imprisonment in July 2016 and had served the sentence by the time of the appeal.

The appeal focused on whether Casey could rely on officially induced error, arguing that he believed the Financial Regulator knew of and encouraged the transactions. The court held that the defence can be available in Irish law within defined limits, but it did not apply on the evidence in his case; the trial judge was right to prevent it being put to the jury.