High Court orders extradition of company director wanted over £5m tax fraud

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a Roscommon man wanted in the United Kingdom for involvement in a £5 million tax fraud. Thomas Joseph O'Connor, aged 50 and resident at Cloughbeirne, The Walk, County Roscommon, was convicted at Blackfriars Crown Court in London in January 2007 following a six-week trial and sentenced to four years and six months imprisonment for defrauding the British revenue. He failed…