FÁS executive's €600,000 fraud trial adjourned

A former FÁS executive accused of defrauding the state training agency of more than €600,000, was remanded on continuing bail at the Dublin District Court today.

James Brooke-Tyrell (aged 53), with an address at Church Gate, Church Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow, had been charged in October 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, D4, resulting in cheques being issued into accounts controlled by him, from 2002 to 2008.