Dunlop links millionaire to planning corruption allegations

FORMER lobbyist Frank Dunlop has linked one of the country’s best known businessmen, Joe Moran, with allegations of planning corruption over the rezoning of lands near Swords, Co Dublin, in the early 1990s.

The Kerry-born millionaire, who is the chairman of two publicly quoted companies - financial services group IFG and household products suppliers IWP - has been identified as being involved in a company which paid Mr Dunlop to bribe councillors.

Mr Moran has admitted authorising payments totalling £27,625 to Mr Dunlop in 1993 for his role in securing the rezoning of the lands. However, he denies any knowledge that any of this money was paid over to members of Dublin County Council in return for their support of efforts to rezone property owned by one of his companies.