The details of how the Quinn siblings accessed their huge amounts of cash beggars belief, says Michael Clifford

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 judge has described evidence given to the Commercial Court by family members of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn as ‘unsatisfactory' and at times 'implausible’.

The youngest daughter of bankrupt billionaire Seán Quinn has settled an action for unfair dismissal against the insurance company once owned by the family.

Businessman Paul Begley will be freed from jail in less than seven months after his record six-year sentence over a €1.6m garlic import duty scam was cut.

Aoife Quinn, a daughter of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn, yesterday told the Commercial Court she spent, in a year, almost all of her €370,000 salary paid by a Russian company into her bank account in Moscow, but she has no receipts.

Aoife Quinn is being questioned by lawyers for IBRC today as to why she failed to disclose information to the bank about trips she made to Dubai in 2011 and 2012.

The High Court has begun to hear cross examination of the children of the bankrupt former billionaire Sean Quinn.

The High Court has begun to hear cross examination of the children of the bankrupt former billionaire Sean Quinn.

The Commercial Court has moved to allow IBRC cross-examine family members of jailed businessman Sean Quinn about their assets.

A daughter of jailed bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn has described the former Anglo Irish Bank as “my greatest enemy of all time”.

The High Court has been told that Sean Quinn Jnr does not have the means to pay up $500,000 (€390,000) in order to purge his contempt.

A broken man, beaten and weathered, he sat down to his last supper and one final pint with his dutiful son.

The High Court has today imposed a nine-week jail sentence on bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn for contempt of court.

Bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn will learn this morning whether he will be jailed over contempt of court orders restraining the stripping of multi-million assets from his family’s international property group.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn are at their “wits’ end” dealing with the former Anglo Irish Bank, the Commercial Court heard.

The son of bankrupt-billionaire Sean Quinn is facing a return to prison after losing an appeal against his imprisonment and conviction for contempt of court in an asset-stripping plot.

Seán Quinn Jnr will find out today whether he has to stay in prison or he is to be freed.

The wife and children of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn will begin their marathon legal battle against the former Anglo Irish Bank in April next year.

A secret recording of a meeting in Ukraine attended by Seán Quinn Jr, his cousin Peter, and some Ukranians, showed a “torrid row” about money, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

A senior judge has questioned why the son of bankrupt billionaire Sean Quinn should be freed from jail.

Seán Quinn’s family had employment contracts with Russian companies providing for multimillion termination payouts, including €26m for his nephew, Peter Darragh Quinn, and almost €15m for his son, Seán Jr, it has been claimed.

Members of the family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn are to seek to have the receiver appointed over their assets and his lawyers discharged.

Members of Sean Quinn's family are to apply for the removal of the receiver appointed over their multimillion euro assets, claiming they perceive a conflict of interest.

Seán Quinn Jr forgot to produce a motor insurance certificate to gardaí at a time when his family’s business was going bust, a court heard.

The son of ex-billionaire Sean Quinn has appeared in court after he forgot to produce a valid insurance certificate as his family’s empire was put into receivership.

The High Court has allowed several family members of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn vary the terms of freezing orders imposed on them so they can pay more than €160,000 in legal fees to their former lawyers.

Another High Court judge dealing with an application in the Seán Quinn bankruptcy saga has issued another warning on the risks associated with contempt.

Lawyers for IBRC want Sean Quinn's family to identify personal assets that can be set against their legal expenses.

Bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn and members of his family will no longer have legal representation in two major upcoming court battles against the former Anglo Irish Bank.

The Quinns of Cavan/Fermanagh may not like the comparisons drawn between themselves and the fictional Ewings of Dallas.

Seán Quinn and his family have been granted over €30,000 in monthly living expenses, including over €5,000 for jailed Seán Quinn Jr and €2,895 for his wife, Karen Woods.

Seán Quinn and his family devised the largest and most devious scheme the Commercial Court has ever seen to put multimillion-euro assets beyond the reach of the former Anglo Irish Bank, a judge has said.

A “mesmerisingly complex” scheme devised by bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn and members of his family to put multi-million assets beyond the reach of the former Anglo Irish Bank and “to feather their own nests” has been described by a judge as the largest and most devious seen to date in the Commercial Court.

Further details of the alleged asset stripping by the Quinn family have been spelled out before a judge who is deciding if he will continue to allow them each draw down an allowance of €2,000 a week.

Bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn and family members under interim freezing orders protecting assets in the Quinn property group have been granted €2,000 each in living expenses until next week.

A judge has made an order freezing the assets owned or controlled by the five adult children of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn, his nephew Peter Darragh Quinn and two sons-in-law — Stephen Kelly and Niall McPartland — below €50m each.

HIGH Court judge Mr Justice Frank Clarke is to give judgment on Tuesday on whether or not to grant further orders restraining members of Sean Quinn’s family from making changes to their international businesses.

Mr Justice Frank Clarke is to give judgment on Tuesday next at 2pm on whether or not to grant further orders restraining members of Sean Quinn’s family from making changes to their international businesses.

MEMBERS of Sean Quinn’s family and Quinn Investments Sweden were accused in the High Court yesterday of involvement in a sinister conspiracy to put assets in Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, India and Cyprus beyond the reach of Anglo Irish Bank.

MEMBERS of Sean Quinn’s family were yesterday restrained from making changes to their international businesses — worth an estimated €500 million — until September 9.

BUSINESSMAN Sean Quinn and his family may challenge the jurisdiction of the courts to hear proceedings by Anglo Irish Bank aimed at preventing the family transferring assets, over which the bank holds security, from Swedish companies which hold the family’s properties in several countries.

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