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Bankrupt property developer Sean Dunne has lost an appeal challenging the appointment of officials who oversaw his bankruptcy process.
Mr Justice Charles Meenan, on behalf of the three-judge Court of Appeal, dismissed his appeal on Friday.
Mr Dunne was one of the most prominent property developers of the Celtic Tiger era, but he went bankrupt with debts of some €700 million and in 2013 filed for bankruptcy in the US.
Shortly afterwards, with the permission of the US authorities, he was declared bankrupt here. He brought challenges to the Irish adjudication, which were dismissed in the High Court and on appeal by the Supreme Court.
His bankruptcy was subsequently extended by the High Court in 2018 over material non-cooperation with the…
This former England cricket star once captained his country’s One Day side but found himself bankrupt in 2011 and had to take up cage fighting to stay afloat
Former England star Adam Hollioake was declared bankrupt in 2011(Image: Getty)
Former England and Surrey captain Adam Hollioake resorted to cage fighting after being declared bankrupt in 2011. The 54-year-old was born in Australia but represented England.
Hollioake is renowned for his time with Surrey, whom he led to three County Championship titles as captain from 1997 to 2003. He made his ODI debut in 1996 and although he never got going in Tests he played in 35 One-Day clashes and led his side to the Sharjah Cup in 1997.
After starring in 173 first-class matches for Surrey, the…
New Delhi, Nov 21 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate on Friday claimed to have unearthed a case where the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) process was “misused” in the land sale of an insolvent real estate company. It said Rs 50 lakh in cash was seized during raids from a lawyer practising at the NCLT and another person. The federal probe agency said in a statement that it conducted searches on Thursday in Delhi and Gurugram as part of a probe against a company named Universal Build Well Pvt. Ltd. and its promoters for non-completion of real estate projects and for “cheating” homebuyers and investors. The company was undergoing a corporate insolvency resolution process, and the National Company Law Tribunal…
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The Enforcement Directorate has conducted searches at six places in Delhi and Gurugram in connection with an alleged undervalued sale of land through misuse of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code process.
“The searches included middlemen who were not part of the insolvency process, Resolution Professional, NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal) advocates and buyer of the property M/s RDB Infrastructure and Power Ltd. promoted by Vinod Duggar,” the agency said on Friday.
The ED initiated investigations based on more than 30 First Information Reports registered in and around…
Now a federal court has temporarily halted the company from falsely impersonating government agencies, according to the FTC.
The FTC recently filed a joint lawsuit with the State of Nevada against American Tax Service as well as its owners and seven affiliated parties for making false claims that they could help tax payers with their debts.
Instead, the service exaggerated tax payers debts, coaxed them into paying for services that promised debt release and falsely claimed the IRS was investigating them.
