AIB official has ‘no recollection’ of Ahern’s £30,000

MYSTERY surrounds a stg£30,000 sum Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has told the Mahon Tribunal he acquired at his Dublin bank in 1995.

The tribunal, probing Mr Ahern’s personal finances, heard there were no paper documents showing the transaction in AIB bank’s branch in O’Connell Street, Dublin.

Mr Ahern, due to testify next week, has already told the tribunal he bought the sterling intending to give it to Manchester-based businessman Micheal Wall to refurbish a Drumcondra house. Mr Wall owned the house which Mr Ahern was renting. The Taoiseach subsequently bought the house.