Judge rejects Dunne motion to quiz Nama CEO

A US judge yesterday denied a motion by lawyers representing Sean Dunne seeking to question Nama CEO Brendan McDonagh in an ongoing Connecticut bankruptcy case.

The disgraced property developer’s legal team was also criticised by the judge for an eleventh-hour objection against Nama efforts to compel Mr Dunne to surrender information about a Swiss bank account, which they claim went undeclared at the time of his filing for bankruptcy in the US last year, with debts of €695m.

An 899-page objection was filed by the debtor’s lawyers at 8pm on Monday, a move which Judge Alan Shiff described as “not a fair thing to do”.