O’Mahoney trial adjourned to next October

THE trial date of a former Anglo Irish Bank official on charges of conspiring to conceal or alter bank accounts being sought by Revenue has been adjourned due to on the ongoing trial of Sean FitzPatrick.

Former Chief Operations Officer Tiarnan O’Mahoney, (57) of Glen Pines, Enniskerry, was due to stand trial last Monday, October 24.

The matter was adjourned to October 2, 2017.

He was convicted by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in July 2015 after he pleaded not guilty to seven charges. He was jailed for three years by Judge Patrick McCartan.

This conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal last April and that same day, a new trial date was set for October 24, 2016.

The charges alleged that in 2003 and 2004 Mr O’Mahoney conspired to hide or omit accounts from Anglo’s Core Banking System or from documentation provided to Revenue, who were conducting an investigation into bogus non-resident accounts which may have been liable for Deposit Interest Retention Tax.

Dominic McGinn SC, prosecuting, told Judge Melanie Greally at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last Wednesday, that O’Mahoney’s trial could not be conducted at the same time as FitzPatrick’s case and asked for the hearing date to be vacated.

Brendan Grehan SC, defending said his client had been excused from attending court. O’Mahoney was remanded in his absence to a pretrial hearing date on July 7, 2017.