Developer ‘embraced the strategy’ of bribes

One of the country’s leading property developers, Owen O’Callaghan was “aware of and actively engaged in” facilitating corrupt payments of almost £120,000 to politicians over a three-year period in the early 1990s, according to the Mahon Tribunal.

The findings against Mr O’Callaghan, including one that he personally made corrupt payments to some politicians, form a central part of its key investigation into planning corruption in Dublin during the 1990s.