A High Court judge has made orders requiring members of bankrupt Seán Quinn’s family to disclose thousands of documents to a team appointed by a receiver for a decision on whether they are relevant to the Quinns’ assets and tax affairs.

The Quinn family is planning on focusing its defence on what it says is the illegal means used by the liquidators of IBRC to obtain information alleging they hid hundreds of millions in assets.

An action by the family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn against the Central Bank, finance minister, and 10 former board members of Anglo Irish Bank for multimillion-euro damages over an alleged conspiracy to unlawfully shore up the share price of Anglo is to be fast-tracked by the Commercial Court.

Members of Seán Quinn’s family may deal with certain bank accounts and shareholdings and regain control of their cars provided they disclose material sought by the receiver appointed over their assets under an agreement reached at the Commercial Court.

A major trial? Absolutely.

A €210,000 payment by Seán Quinn Jr which was raised by himself and his wife via a charge on their Dublin home has finally purged his contempt of court orders, a High Court judge has ruled.

The liquidators of IBRC identified the entire Quinn Family and its advisers as potential sources of the leaked Anglo Tapes.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn intend to sue the Department of Finance and the Central Bank over allegedly conspiring with Anglo Irish Bank in advancing €2.34bn unlawful loans to Quinn companies.

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”.

ALL of the obnoxious wrongs being revealed at Anglo Irish Bank do not make the equally abhorrent actions of the Quinn family right.

The liquidated Irish Bank Resolution Corporation has argued that the Quinn family, in seeking a fortified undertaking for it to pay US$500m (€380m) damages should they successfully defend its case against them, are effectively seeking compensation for the value of assets they themselves stripped from their family’s international property group.

Ireland’s ambassador to Russia, Philip McDonagh, said recovering assets related to the Quinn family may help trade relations between the two nations.

The son of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn has provided statements of Russian bank accounts held by himself and other family members to the IBRC and is anxious to finally purge his contempt of court orders, the High Court heard yesterday.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn has claimed the insolvency of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation means the courts must urgently lift orders freezing their accounts below €50m each and preventing them transferring assets in their international property group.

The DPP will ask the Commercial Court today to adjourn the former Anglo Irish Bank’s long-running “conspiracy” case against bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn, members of his family, and others until the criminal trial of former Anglo chairman Sean FitzPatrick and two of the bank’s former senior executives has concluded.

A daughter of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn has told the Commercial Court she received €379,170 under employment contracts with three Russian companies which she signed without reading, because they were in Russian.

The family of former billionaire Seán Quinn have said they plan to take a “huge compensation case” against the Government and the taxpayer will be left to foot the bill.

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

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Seán Quinn Jr walked free from the Four Courts yesterday as the High Court heard bankrupt billionaire Seán Quinn Sr wants to co-operate with the former Anglo Irish Bank and purge his contempt.

A senior Fine Gael figure has accused the brother of bankrupt billionaire Seán Quinn of dishonouring the role of GAA president.

Ex-Anglo chairman Seán FitzPatrick and two former colleagues have been sent forward for trial for providing “unlawful financial assistance” to 16 individuals.

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.

There was a familiar face in court that day.

The former Anglo Irish Bank has told the Supreme Court it does not accept claims by the family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn that more than €430m assets in their international property group are gone and cannot be recovered by the bank.

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.

The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation claims that had material regarding huge payouts to the Quinn family been before the High Court earlier this year in a hearing to determine if family members breached court orders over asset stripping, it would have had an important influence on the court.

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

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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.

Seán Quinn is expected to mount a Supreme Court challenge early next week to overturn yesterday’s High Court ruling, which saw his son and nephew jailed for three months for contempt.

A sportsman, a numbers man, now a wanted man.

The bringing of contempt proceedings against Sean Quinn and members of his family is an “abuse of process” and an attempt by former Anglo Irish Bank to destroy the Quinns’ credibility in advance of their own action against it, it has been claimed.

A top official from the former Anglo Irish Bank has told of reading chatrooms linked to the GAA to monitor gossip on the activities of former billionaire Sean Quinn.

THE wife of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn has been ordered to repay a €3 million bank loan.

THERE must be many thousands of people who might wish they could avoid repaying debts by pleading that they were unduly influenced by their spouse to sign the bank documentation needed to get the cash in the first place.

THE wife of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn is making “incredible” claims she does not have to repay a €3 million bank loan because she is a homemaker unduly influenced by her husband and regularly signed documents he put in front of her without reading them, the Commercial Court was told yesterday.

ANGLO IRISH BANK is to seek court orders requiring the wife and children of businessman Sean Quinn to provide security for the costs of the potential “mammoth” discovery of bank documents in the family’s action arguing they have no liability for repayment of €2.3 billion loans made to various Quinn companies.

FORMER British Home Secretary David Blunkett yesterday remained silent as the row over his relationship with Kimberly Quinn once more grabbed front-page headlines.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a Kilkenny teenager told different stories to gardaí and to friends about an injury he sustained around the time of a murder of which he’s accused.