Councillor ‘spent hundreds’ at top Dublin restaurants but failed to pay off a €33k personal injury claim, court hears – Irish Independent

Greg Harkin Published 02/03/2016 | 14:51 Councillor John ODonnell from Donegal filmed in a meeting with an undercover reporter for the RTÉ Investigates Standards in Public Office programme. A COUNCILLOR at the centre of corruption allegations has been ordered by a judge today to re-start payments to a woman who won a compensation order against…

Gleacher & Company Announces Fourth Liquidating Distribution and Provides Other Updates – Business Wire (press release)

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Gleacher & Company, Inc. (OTC Pink: GLCH) (the Company) announced today that the Board of Directors has determined to make a fourth liquidating distribution to Company stockholders in the amount of $1.82 per share of the Company’s common stock (approximately $11.3 million in the aggregate). The record date for this distribution is March…

Activists say European banks helped Ukrainians launder $600 million – Kyiv Post

The investigation, presented on Feb. 26 in Vienna by activists of the Anticorruption Action Centre, shows examples of the siphoning of some $600 million from the Ukrainian banks. Photo by Ukrafoto When many of Ukraine’s banks went bust after President Viktor Yanukovych’s rule, the State Depository Insurance Fund paid out $2.6 billion to reimburse customers…

NBU trying to collect UAH 11.5 bln of personal security from owners of insolvent banks – Interfax

2016-03-02T12:39+02:00 12:39 02.03.2016 The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) plans to collect UAH 11.462 billion from the owners of banks that were declared insolvent acting as personal bail granters, Director of the risk management department Ihor Budnyk has said. “As for personal bail of former owners of banks Kostiantyn Zhevaho, Oleh Bakhmatiuk, Mykola Lahun and…

Activists say European banks helped Ukrainians launder $600 million – Kyiv Post

The investigation, presented on Feb. 26 in Vienna by activists of the Anticorruption Action Centre, shows examples of the siphoning of some $600 million from the Ukrainian banks. Photo by Ukrafoto When many of Ukraine’s banks went bust after President Viktor Yanukovych’s rule, the State Depository Insurance Fund paid out $2.6 billion to reimburse customers…