Three Anglo officials convicted of hiding accounts

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A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court returned unanimous guilty verdicts on all seven counts against former Anglo Irish Bank officials Tiarnan O'Mahoney, Bernard Daly and Aoife Maguire. The proceedings were reported on 31 July 2015.

All three had pleaded not guilty to the charges.

All three were convicted of conspiring to destroy, mutilate or falsify documents relating to accounts of John Peter O’Toole, the brother-in-law of Seán FitzPatrick, the bank’s former chief executive and chairman.

Aoife Maguire and Tiarnan O'Mahoney were also convicted of conspiring to destroy, mutilate or falsify records of six other accounts connected to Seán FitzPatrick, and of conspiring to defraud Revenue in relation to those accounts.

Tiarnan O'Mahoney and Bernard Daly were additionally convicted of knowingly and wilfully supplying incorrect information to Revenue on 17 November 2003 by excluding John Peter O’Toole’s account from a list of non-resident accounts.

Sentencing before Judge Patrick McCartan was due on 31 July 2015. The judge rejected bail applications for all three pending sentencing, saying the primary consideration was that they had been found guilty. The report also described his announcement that Aoife Maguire would be remanded in custody.

Delivery of the verdict was delayed after an anonymous call to the Director of Public Prosecutions’ office alleged that the jury foreman’s wife was a friend of Aoife Maguire. The foreman denied this when questioned by the judge. The judge rejected an application to discharge the jury and said he did not ascribe responsibility for what occurred to the defendants.