Report: Decision on FitzPatrick charges 'next year'

A decision on whether or not former Anglo Irish Bank Chairman, Sean FitzPatrick will face criminal charges is not expected to be made until next year.

According to this morning's Sunday Tribune, Mr FitzPatrick co-operated fully with gardaí when he was questioned at Bray Garda Station this week.

The 61-year-old was arrested at his home in Greystones on Thursday as part an investigation into alleged financial irregularities at Anglo Irish Bank.

The file being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions is reportedly not near completion and it will be at least another three months before it is sent.

It has also been reported that detectives from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation plan to arrest at least three more senior bank officials over the coming weeks and months as part of the Anglo probe.