Former finance director denies bribery claims

A FORMER finance director of Monarch Properties development company strongly denied at the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday that mystery cash payments went to bribe county councillors.

“We were never paying bribes to councillors,” declared Dominick Glennane when tribunal lawyer Patricia Dillon SC put it to him that bribing councillors could help to explain the absence of supporting invoices.

Documents were shown to the tribunal relating to a series of unexplained cash payments amounting to £160,000.