€27m theft trial hears signature on letter of undertaking for €3.7m loan is not solicitor's

The former bank official said he established Michael Lynn was not the registered owner of the properties

The court heard that it is the position of Michael Lynn (pictured) that it was the custom and practise that solicitor Fiona McAleenan allowed her signature to be used “on all sorts of documents”, including undertakings. Photo: Collins Courts

A solicitor purported to have signed an undertaking relating to a €3.7 million loan told a bank the signature on the document was not hers, a multi-million euro theft trial has heard.

A former official with Permanent TSB told the trial of Michael Lynn (53) that alarm bells rang for him in October 2007 when solicitor Fiona McAleenan informed him that a signature purporting to be hers relating to a €3.7 million loan application was not hers.