Fraudster businessman Breifne O’Brien has been jailed for seven years for running a Ponzi scheme which costs his victims millions.

He duped friends, friends of friends and his own father. He faked an email from an Italian shipping merchant.

Businessman Breifne O’Brien is to be sentenced on July 30 on multiple charges of multi-million euro theft and deception.

Businessman Breifne O’Brien maintains he cannot get a fair trial on theft and deception charges because of adverse publicity.

The wife of rogue financier Breifne O’Brien has been awarded over €45,000 after being unfairly sacked from the Dublin taxi firm which the high-profile couple once owned.

His winning personality and gold-plated reputation drew investors with ease but as John Hearne reports by Dec 2008, as the financial crisis morphed into recession, everyone wanted their money back... but it wasn’t there

Today we describe the case of self-confessed fraudster Breifne O’Brien who, over 15 years, cheated relatives, friends and friends of friends. He used his privileged position — an affluent family, raised in a castle, private schools followed by Trinity — to swindle millions from others in his haute bourgeois milieu.

The wife of rogue financier, Breifne O’Brien, has taken a case for unfair dismissal against the Dublin taxi firm which the couple once owned.

SOCIALITE Breifne O’Brien has been arrested by gardaí investigating one of the country’s most high-profile pyramid schemes.

CREDITORS of an insolvent taxi firm owned by rogue financier Breifne O’Brien have been told that they are unlikely to receive any money owed to them.

A COURT yesterday paved the way for Anglo Irish Bank to sell off the assets of alleged pyramid scheme operator Breifne O’Brien in a bid to reduce his alleged €13 million borrowings to the bank and its subsidiaries.

ALLEGED pyramid scheme operator Breifne O’Brien has been ordered to repay €1.85 million given to him by his financier brother-in-law to invest.

TWO more claims have been brought against alleged pyramid scheme operator Breifne O’Brien for the repayment of monies given to him to invest.

CORK-born businessman Breifne O’Brien is to face a Garda investigation over allegations that he operated a pyramid scheme that defrauded clients of millions of euro.