The Cork man charged with laundering more than £3m (€3.2m) for from the Northern Bank robbery is telling lies or else there is a conspiracy of lies by a high-ranking team of garda investigators, a court heard today.

The man accused of money-laundering over £3m from the Northern Bank robbery denied confessing to gardaí that he had told Phil Flynn he could move £10m or £11m.

A GARDA chief wanted the Cork man accused of money-laundering to rubberstamp the view that Phil Flynn was behind the Northern Bank robbery, but the accused said he was so tired and confused during interrogation that he would have agreed that Mother Teresa was his sister.

THE Corkman accused of money-laundering claimed from the witness box yesterday a group of Bulgarian business people were keen to invest money with him, because they could not trust their country’s banks.

The prosecution closed its case today on the 33rd day of the trial of a Cork man accused of money-laundering.

Former ICC Bank executive Denis O’Connell gave evidence today of travelling to Bulgaria in 2004 with the man who was later accused of laundering more than £3m from the Northern Bank robbery.

THE man accused of laundering over £3 million from the Northern Bank robbery claimed that the gardaí wanted him to “nail” Phil Flynn, the former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland), and that if he didn’t they would turn his family into the McBreartys of Donegal.

The man accused of laundering over £3m from the Northern Bank robbery claimed today that the gardaí wanted him to "nail" Phil Flynn – former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) and that if didn’t they would turn his family into the McBreartys of Donegal.

THE jury in the money-laundering trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard no further evidence yesterday and were sent home by the trial judge until Monday.

THE Corkman on trial for money-laundering was in fear of the former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) — Phil Flynn — it was claimed yesterday by the detective in charge of the investigation.

THE 60-year-old man accused of money-laundering told garda’ he was never in the IRA but told detectives he knew the leader of the IRA and once sent him a Christmas card.

The 60-year-old man accused of money-laundering told gardaí he was never in the IRA but he told detectives he knew “the leader of the IRA” and once sent him a Christmas card.

A DETECTIVE searching the home of a man accused of money laundering believed the accused was part of an IRA gang that included another man caught at a railway station with a large amount of euro cash in a Daz washing powder box.

The jury in the trial of a Cork father and son accused of laundering over £3m (€3.17m) from Belfast’s Northern Bank robbery of December 2004 was told today how gardaí found several bags bulging with Northern sterling in the home of one of the accused.

THE trial of a Cork financial adviser accused of money laundering arising out of the investigation of the Northern Bank robbery will take up to 16 weeks.

A THIRD man has been charged in connection with the £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery.

A Cork financial advisor who is accused of money-laundering - arising out of the investigation of the 2004 Northern Bank robbery - was back at Cork District Court today and remanded on continuing bail to appear again in a month’s time.