State paid nearly €5m to firm refusing to testify in Moriarty Tribunal

NEARLY €5 million was paid by the State to the Danish firm that is refusing to testify about its role as independent consultants to the second mobile phone project eight years ago.

The fees went to Andersen Management International, whose former boss says he won’t give evidence to the Moriarty Tribunal now probing how the GSM2 competition was run.

Copenhagen-based AMI got fees of IR£500,000 for its work with the Department of Communications on the second mobile phone project. It also received fees of 3,953,259 for nine other licensing and regulation-related projects in the telecommunications area.