Three Land Registry officials and a law agent, facing charges under prevention of corruption legislation, have been sent forward for trial at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
It is alleged that the three employees of the Land Registry in Dublin illegally received money over a three-year period for documents sold to a law agent.
Liam Rainsford, Cremore Heights, Glasnevin, Dublin; Alan Quinn, Broadmeadow, Swords, and Michael Byrne, Parkwood Drive, Tallaght, are accused of illegally receiving money for folios and file plans. They face 47, 18 and four charges respectively.
The fourth man, Gerard Dooley of Dooley's Law Agents, Sundrive Road, Dublin, is accused of 65 offences pertaining to the Prevention of Corruption Act (2001).
At the Dublin District Court, Judge William Early granted bail of between €300 and €1,000 to all four accused men.
The Land Registry, which operates under the aegis of the Department of Justice, is the State body responsible for the registration of land and property transactions in the Republic.
The office's activities include examining and recording legal documents and maps, the registering of title on land and property for the first time, and recording subsequent transactions.
It supplies documents to buyers and vendors in all land and property transactions.
Such documents are needed for a sale to verify the lands or properties being sold, and to determine if any person or body other than the vendor has a holding in the asset being sold.