Bankrupt property tycoon Derek Quinlan, who still owes Irish taxpayers â¬403 million through State agency Nama, received a â¬2.5 million tax rebate from Revenue that he immediately transferred to his wife and hid from his insolvency administrators in the UK.
The money was used to fund their âliving expensesâ, which included â¬1,200 (£1,000 stg) per month spent on alcohol and close to £100,000 (â¬118,000) a year in rent on a six-bedroom London house, newly obtained UK court records show.
Mr Quinlan â one of the most prolific Irish property investors of the Celtic Tiger period, who lost his fortune in the 2008-09 crash â failed to disclose the tax rebate in 2018 to his UK insolvency administrators, who cited it among seven reasons last November why they blocked Mr Quinlanâs exit from bankruptcy.
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