A High Court judge has said it is “incredible” to accept claims by members of Seán Quinn’s family they cannot produce documents concerning alleged contracts of employment with Russian companies from which they were paid “very large” sums totalling almost €2m in a “very strange way”.

A daughter of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn withdrew almost €340,000 in cash from ATMs over a year from her Russian bank account, with most of it going to pay legal fees.