Nama must be held accountable for its handling of the controversial sale of a £1.2bn (€1.39bn) Northern Ireland property portfolio, the Public Accounts Committe has insisted.

Nama’s resistance to public scrutiny over its handling of the sale of a distressed loans in the North could result in harmful political fallout, writes Eamon Quinn

Sinn Féin has suspended a party member after he allegedly made contact with a witness to an inquiry into the North's largest ever property deal.

Sinn Féin has suspended a party member after he allegedly made contact with a witness to an inquiry into the North's largest ever property deal.

A former Sinn Féin Assembly committee chairman has resigned following allegations that he communicated with loyalist Jamie Bryson before he gave explosive evidence about the Nama property deal.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has rejected opposition calls for a commission of inquiry into the sale of Nama’s Northern loan book following the arrests of two men in a fraud probe linked to the sale.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has rejected Opposition calls for a Commission of Inquiry into the sale of Nama’s northern loan book, following the arrests of two men in a fraud investigation linked to the sale, writes Daniel McConnell of the Irish Examiner.

Two men have been arrested by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) in a fraud investigation linked to the biggest property deal ever in Northern Ireland.

Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson has rejected as “outrageous and groundless” an accusation he was to receive a payment linked to Northern Ireland’s largest ever property sale.

I was talking to the assistant manager from my local bank the other day. Very bright lad, sharp as a tack, the sort who could accurately count your lodgement just by having a quick glance at the size of it out of the corner of his eye.

Commercial property prices across a large chunk of the Project Eagle loans in Belfast have soared by up to 20% since Nama signed off on the transaction for €1.6bn just over 12 months ago, the Irish Examiner has confirmed.

Nama faced fierce scrutiny yesterday amid claims by senior members of the Dáil’s public accounts committee that it should have cancelled a huge sale last year of €5.7bn of Northern loans, codenamed Project Eagle.

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The key players of the Nama scandal

Finance Minister Michael Noonan shot down a request by a US law firm for a closed and exclusive sale of Nama’s €5.7bn Northern loan book, after Sammy Wilson, the North’s finance minister, forwarded the company’s request to him and said it had introduced him to interested investors.

The chairman of Nama has been accused of “failing to protect the public interest” amid calls for an all-island inquiry into alleged payoffs that were part of the agency’s biggest ever property deal.

The controversy started over disputed legal fees at the Belfast law firm Tughans involving £7m (€9.8m) held in a secret account on the Isle of Man.

Brown Rudnick, the US law firm which advised two bidders involved in the controversial €5.7bn of Project Eagle loans sold by Nama last year, yesterday said it would co-operate with all inquiries into the transaction.

Nama was toughing it out last night amid calls from Stormont and in the Dáil that it review the process behind the controversial sale last year of €5.7bn of loans to a giant US fund.

Irish taxpayers could end up paying hundreds of millions more to bondholders on the basis of a ruling in Britain’s High Court.

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