Sean FitzPatrick trial date set over misleading auditors

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On 4 July 2016, Judge John Aylmer set 21 September 2016 for the jury to be sworn in for Sean FitzPatrick’s trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court over allegedly misleading Anglo Irish Bank auditors. The proceedings were reported on 4 July 2016.

FitzPatrick has pleaded not guilty to 27 offences under the 1990 Companies Act, including 21 charges of making a misleading, false or deceptive statement to auditors.

He also faces six charges of furnishing false information in the years 2002 to 2007. The trial was expected to last 12 weeks and require a specially enlarged jury of 15 members.

The court heard that swearing in the jury would take a full day, followed by two days of legal issues in the jury’s absence. Evidence was due to begin on 26 September 2016.