A manager with the Northern Ireland Southern Education and Library Board has gone on trial at Belfast Crown Court accused of plotting to defraud the board of over £100,000 and providing false accounts and false information.
Mr John Gerard Doherty (46), from Greenacres, Glen gormley, denies a total of 15 charges allegedly committed between April and September 1992.
Prosecuting counsel Mr Gordon Kerr QC claimed that when police checked Mr Doherty's bank accounts, when an audit uncovered discrepancies in excess of £100,000 involving 300 computers, it showed amounts far beyond his salary.
Mr Doherty, he claimed, said the money had come from gambling, the sale of football memorabilia and payment for work he had done for System Parks, the computer firm at the centre of the alleged fraud conspiracy.