Seán Quinn and his family have been granted over €30,000 in monthly living expenses, including over €5,000 for jailed Seán Quinn Jr and €2,895 for his wife, Karen Woods.

A nephew of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn denies being the “mastermind” of a strategy to put multimillion-euro assets of the Quinn family beyond the reach of Anglo Irish Bank, but agreed steps taken were “wrong and unethical”, although he did not believe they breached Russian law.