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ALLEGED PYRAMID scheme operator Breifne O’Brien has been ordered by a High Court judge to repay amounts of some €1.85 million given to him by his financier brother-in-law to invest.

The order was not opposed by Mr O’Brien who, in an e-mail to Bernard Lambilliotte last December, wrote: “My regret for what I have subjected you to does not decrease but instead I feel nothing but increasing shame.”