The High Court has heard that the DPP intends to charge businessman Jim Kennedy with several criminal offences.

BUSINESSMAN Jim Kennedy was arrested by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) after he attended a court case involving an alleged €53 million “corrupt” land deal.

FORMER political lobbyist Frank Dunlop could soon be facing a criminal prosecution on charges of corruption as a result of a detailed investigation by the Criminal Assets Bureau.

A MYSTERIOUS property firm based in Britain is continuing its fight to obtain E13 million in compensation from Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, despite being the subject of serious allegations of corruption at the Planning Tribunal over the past year.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is considering seizing the €13m awarded to the owners of 20 acres of land at Carrickmines in Dublin used to complete the M50 motorway.

A BRITISH company under investigation by the Planning Tribunal has been awarded just under €13 million for having its land compulsorily acquired for the final leg of the M50 motorway in south Dublin.

THE Planning Tribunal has heard that the two beneficial owners of a company under investigation for alleged planning corruption were “at loggerheads” in recent weeks over their level of co-operation with the inquiry.

THE outcome of the multi- million-euro compensation row between a county council and British property firm Jackson Way will be known within six weeks, the arbitrator has said.

JACKSON WAY, the elusive British property company seeking €47 million in compensation from the Irish State, has been ordered to appear before an arbitration hearing to prove its existence and ownership.

A DISSOLVED British-based property company accused of planning corruption at the Flood Tribunal has applied to be reinstated in order to receive a potential €47m payout from the Irish authorities.

A FIANNA FÁIL councillor has been criticised by the Flood Tribunal yesterday over his failure to make a full discovery of documents relating to the inquiry’s investigation into alleged planning corruption.

FIANNA FÁIL has been sharply criticised by Frank Dunlop for suggesting the party did not attempt to instruct its members on Dublin Co Council how to vote on planning issues during the late 1980s and 1990s.

A PROPERTY company, which is seeking 47m in compensation from Irish taxpayers, may not be entitled to a single cent after it was dissolved yesterday.

THE Flood Tribunal has declared that the British company, Jackson Way Properties, is now obstructing the progress of the inquiry into alleged planning corruption.

AN offshore company under investigation by the Flood Tribunal accused Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Council in 1998 of misleading its own councillors about a rezoning motion on lands it owned.

The Flood Tribunal will today complete the opening statement of its latest phase investigating rezoning decisions made by Dublin councillors.

BUSINESSMAN James Kennedy, who is named as one of the owners of the Jackson Way property company, has told the Flood Tribunal he will not meet with its investigators or attend hearings.

The Flood Tribunal has heard that businessmen Jim Kennedy has refused to return to Dublin to give evidence at the inquiry.

The Flood Tribunal has heard that political lobbyist Frank Dunlop was offered a £250,000 payment in 1997 if he could secure the rezoning of land in Carrickmines, Co Dublin, owned by the mysterious company Jackson Way.

FURTHER details about payments of up to £5,000 made by Frank Dunlop to councillors in return for alleged planning favours on lands at Carrickmines are expected to emerge at the Flood Tribunal today.

THE arbitrator in the Jackson Way land compensation dispute has retired to consider the case.

BY the time the Flood Tribunal completes its latest investigation into allegations of corruption over the rezoning of lands at Carrickmines in south Dublin, John Caldwell is set to become something of a household name — like his erstwhile associates, Liam Lawlor and Frank Dunlop.

LITTLE wonder that Frank Dunlop, the man who has admitted paying a host of councillors cash for re-zoning votes, has been dubbed ‘the canary’ by many attending the Flood Tribunal.

IT’S a mystery that would challenge the abilities of Kojak and Columbo combined.

A number of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael councillors have sought legal representation at this morning's sitting of the Flood Tribunal.

THE identity of councillors named by Frank Dunlop as having taken money in return for votes on a controversial South Dublin rezoning project may become publicly known today when the Flood Tribunal resumes hearings.

JACKSON Way Properties valued their massive compensation claim against the State on the basis that the last section of the M50 motorway cut their lands off from the upmarket Foxrock neighbourhood of south Co Dublin.

AN architect for Jackson Way Properties has told a hearing into the company’s €47 million compensation claim that it could have built 1,600 houses and apartments if the last section of the M50 motorway had not been routed through its lands.