David Drumm was accused of engaging in "classic fraudulent transfers" during the first day of his bank-ruptcy trial in Boston yesterday.

The lawyer for the state-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation threw the kitchen sink and $300,000 (€220,000) worth of other furniture at David Drumm yesterday in Boston.

The trial of David Drumm, the former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, will begin today with the disgraced banker first up to give testimony at a Boston bankruptcy court.