Former managing partner of Tughans solicitors Ian Coulter leaving Belfast Crown Court in August: he is on trial for fraud charges. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

A Co Antrim man on trial for fraud charges linked to the sale of the Northern Ireland loan book was branded a “greedy fker” by a senior member of an American-based investment firm, a jury heard on Monday.

The comment relates to Ian Coulter (54), a former managing partner of Tughans solicitors from Templepatrick Road in Ballyclare, who has been charged with five offences over a time frame of April 3rd to December 1st, 2014.

His co-accused is 83-year old Frank Hugh Cushnahan, a former corporate financier from Alexandra Gate in Holywood, wh

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