Supreme Court rejects Denis Casey’s appeal over Anglo conspiracy conviction

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The Supreme Court unanimously rejected Denis Casey’s appeal against his conviction for conspiring to defraud over transactions intended to make Anglo Irish Bank appear to have received an additional €7.2 billion in customer deposits. Casey had already served the two years and nine months’ imprisonment imposed in July 2016.

Casey argued that he authorised the transactions believing the Financial Regulator knew of them and had encouraged banks to support one another during the financial crisis. The court held that officially induced error can be an answer to a criminal charge in certain circumstances, but that it was unavailable to Casey on the evidence in his case.