Gardaí ready to resume questioning businessman

GARDAÍ were waiting to resume questioning of businessman Jim Kennedy last night after he was taken to hospital early yesterday morning, hours after being arrested by detectives from the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).

Mr Kennedy was arrested on Tuesday shortly after he arrived back in the country following a seven-year absence.

The developer had returned to give evidence in a High Court case in which CAB is seeking to recover €53 million from property company Jackson Way Properties (JWP) over alleged corrupt enrichment as a result of the sale of 17 acres of farmland at Carrickmines in south Dublin.