Anglo 3 were paid €1m last year

THREE former Anglo Irish directors were paid more than €1 million last year in back-pay despite owing the bank €100m.

Former Anglo chairman Sean FitzPatrick, who was arrested and questioned recently, was paid €131,000 in fees last year – for just three months’ work. He resigned from the bank in December 2008 and owes it €88.7m.

Former chief executive David Drumm, who was photographed in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, recently, was paid €654,000 for three months’ work in 2008. This was broken down between €400,000 salary, €15,000 in benefits and a €239,000 pension contribution. Mr Drumm owes the bank €8.3m.