of Ian Coulter leaving Belfast Crown Court, where he and Frank Cushnahan, are appearing charged with fraud linked to a £1.1 billion property deal in Northern Ireland. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Two businessmen currently on trial on fraud charges arising from the sale of the Northern Ireland property portfolio “have not kept a cent” of a £7.5 million (€8.63 million) success fee, Belfast Crown Court heard on Monday.
As the former chairman of the Dublin-based National Asset Management Agency spend his fourth and final day in the witness box at Belfast Crown Court, a barrister representing one of the defendants also said “a rump” of that success fee remains in the bank account of a Belfast solicitor’s firm.
Frank Hugh Cushnahan (83
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