Regulator to explain handling of AIB irregular share deals

THE Financial Regulator is being called in to a Dáil committee tomorrow to explain how it dealt with irregular share dealing involving AIB and Goodbody Stockbrokers.

The Irish Examiner revealed this week that the Regulator did not inform the Department of Finance about allegations that money was being laundered through Caribbean tax havens in 2001, despite referring the matter to the gardaí for investigation.

The regulator’s office wrote to the Oireachtas Committee on Economic Regulatory Affairs last week complaining about the allegations made at a committee meeting two weeks ago by a former auditor of AIB.