Nama denies data leak

The National Assets Management Agency and a company of the agency “very much deny” claims they leaked confidential information of businessmen Michael and John O’Flynn and their company O’Flynn Construction Ltd, the Commercial Court has been told.

Mr Justice Brian McGovern, who queried whether the O’Flynns’ case had sufficient commercial law aspects to warrant being fast-tracked in the Commercial Court, said yesterday he was satisfied to transfer the case to the commercial list.

The judge was earlier told by Michael Cush, counsel for the O’Flynns, that the information at issue was financial, personal, and corporate and the sums involved were very large, relating to assets worth “hundreds of millions” of euro.