Corkman admits more than €300k of financial services frauds

In the original indictment, the amounts of money allegedly defrauded from injured parties referred to in the charges varied from €3,000 to €212,000. File photo: iStock

A 46-year-old facing the prospect of a two-week trial by judge and jury on charges of financial services fraud has pleaded guilty to sample counts arising out of the investigation into the case which relates to sums of over €300,000.

Mervyn Tanner of Buttery Court, Market Square, Mallow, County Cork, was arraigned in front of a jury panel from which a jury was about to be sworn at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.