33 forgery charges brought against former FÁS executive

Thirty-three forgery charges have been brought against a former FÁS executive, who is accused of defrauding the state training agency of more than €600,000.

Last month at the Dublin District Court, Mr James Brooke-Tyrell (aged 53), with an address at Church Gate, Church Road, Greystones, Co. Wicklow, was charged with 47 counts of deception by manufacturing a false tender, inducing FÁS while in his position as assistant video production manager, at Upper Baggot Street, D.4, resulting in cheques being issued into accounts controlled by him, from 2002 to 2008.