Drumm to fight bid to extradite him after US arrest

The former head of rogue lender Anglo Irish Bank is to fight his extradition to Ireland following his arrest.

David Drumm, 48, was detained by US marshals in Massachusetts over the weekend and is being held in custody ahead of an extradition hearing tomorrow. Authorities here want to quiz him over the collapse of the bank and have long-sought his after he failed to be declared bankrupt in the US.

Mr Drumm moved to Massachusetts in 2009, six months after resigning as chief executive of the now defunct bank, which was central to the country’s boom-to-bust saga.