INVESTIGATIONS into tax evasion and corruption have yielded the Revenue Commissioners €1.5 billion over the past five years.

The Green Party has welcomed the news that the owners of the Ansbacher Bank, which was at the centre of a tax evasion scam in Ireland, have reached a €7.5m settlement with the Revenue Commissioners.

ANSBACHER Bank, which was been at the centre of one of the longest-running tax investigations, has been put up for sales by its owners.

THE Revenue Commissioners have uncovered a substantial list of additional individuals and business interests linked to Ansbacher Cayman Ltd.

The Dail is to be recalled on Thursday for a day to discuss the report into suspected tax evasion through the Ansbacher bank.

The Tanaiste Mary Harney has admitted that there may well be other tax evasion schemes such as the one discovered at the Ansbacher Bank in the Cayman Islands.

The director of corporate enforcement is today expected to announce a date for the publication of the long-awaited report into alleged tax evasion through the Ansbacher Bank.

The publication of the much-awaited report into alleged tax evasion through the Ansbacher Bank has been delayed until Thursday or Friday due to logistical difficulties.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has agreed to reconvene the Dáil next week to discuss the findings of the High Court report into alleged tax evasion through the Ansbacher Bank in the Cayman Islands.

The Revenue Commissioners are now investigating 500 Irish people with offshore accounts in the Ansbacher Bank.

The Ansbacher bank is to consider whether to appeal a Grand Court ruling in the Cayman Islands last night that identities of their Irish account holders cannot be released.