Former Anglo executive 'could not have known information was missing'

The jury in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives - accused of defrauding Revenue - has been told that the prosecution has "resorted to the cheap phrase - 'he must have known'."

Former Anglo executive 'could not have known information was missing'

The jury in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives - accused of defrauding Revenue - has been told that the prosecution has "resorted to the cheap phrase - 'he must have known'."

A closing statement is being made by Senior Counsel Sean Guerin on behalf of the bank’s former company secretary Bernard Daly.

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Mr Daly (aged 67) of Collins Avenue West in Dublin is one of three executives charged with trying to hide accounts connected to Sean FitzPatrick from the Revenue Commissioners.

Mr Guerin told the court that Mr Daly could not have possibly known from looking at a 3,000-row list of accounts sent to Revenue that there was any information missing.

He said that the prosecution had tried to mislead the jury about the extent of Mr Daly’s role in furnishing a list of accounts to Revenue - and said that was a "disgrace".

The court heard the prosecution was not satisfied with merely spinning the evidence - but had danced and pirouetted around it.

The jury were told that they must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr Daly was guilty of defrauding Revenue.

A closing statement on behalf of former assistant manager Aoife Maguire will be heard later.

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