The High Court continued to hear evidence today from lawyers for the Flood Tribunal alleging that Dublin West TD, Mr Liam Lawlor, had failed to co-operate fully with the tribunal as ordered earlier in the year.
Mr Lawlor appeared for the second day in the High Court before Mr Justice Thomas Smyth, who is reviewing whether Mr Lawlor complied with the order of January 7th this year instructing him to disclose all documents relating to his financial affairs to the tribunal.
The day was taken up with reading of detailed evidence from affidavits made by Flood tribunal solicitor Ms Marie Anne Howard and Mr Lawlor himself.
In the afternoon session, a lawyer for the Tribunal, Mr Brian Murray, went through a number of Mr Lawlor’s business interests for which they say he has failed to produce sufficiently detailed documentation.
The business interests included Leisure Ireland, which was involved in the proposed Stadium Ireland in which, Mr Murray said, Mr Lawlor had a 25 per cent interest, Eurpopean Communications Ltd,Navona, registered in the Isle of Mann, and Zateka, operating in the Czech Republic.
According to Ms Howard’s evidence Mr Lawlor spent £164,000 over a nine-month period using a Zateka credit card yet the only documentation could discover relating to the activities of the account was the credit card number. Mr Lawlor said the bank dealt with everything.
Mr Lawlor also said he was neither a director or a shareholder of the company but that under an agreement he would receive 75 per cent of any profits on property deals the company made.
This morninglawyers for the tribunal claimed a lack of documentation on eight bank accounts in Lichenstein and a loan from the Morgan Trust.
In his affidavit, Mr Lawlor defended the lack of documentation relating to the £681,000 loan from the Morgan Trust to Longwater, the company Mr Lawlor was operating in Prague, saying the terms of the deal had been "agreed on a handshake".
Laywers for the tribunal accused Mr Lawlor of "deliberately invoking a degree of casualness to the deal in order to defend the lack of documentation".
Earlier this year Mr Lawlor spent seven days in jail and was fined £10,000 for failing to supply the tribunal with financial records.
If found in contempt of the earlier order to comply with the tribunal, Mr Lawlor could find himself back in prison.
The case is expected to finish tomorrow.