Gardaí discovered a Irl £63,000-valued Scania transporter, which had been stolen in 1994 from a Customs and Excise pound at Rosslare Port, when they searched a north Co Louth premises in 1998.

A consultant engineer has told a jury it would have taken up to seven hours to remove a Scania truck and its load from a ditch into which one allegedly fell after colliding with a Rover car.

A man who gave a false address paid Stg£10,000 cash in Northern Ireland currency to buy a badly damaged Scania truck from an English salvage company.

A professional motor assessor has told the Ir£151,000 fraud conspiracy trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that a Rover car he examined was never involved in a traffic accident.