Businessman challenges prosecution for alleged failure to provide passwords to gardaí
Dublin-based Yavor Poptoshev, a business associate of Michael Lynn, claims he did not provide access to devices due to fears he might incriminate himself
Former solicitor and property developer Michael Lynn was sentenced to five and a half years in February 2024. He was convicted in December 2023 of 10 counts of stealing around €17.9m from six financial institutions 16 years ago.
Dublin-based Yavor Poptoshev, a business associate of Michael Lynn, claims he did not provide access to devices due to fears he might incriminate himself
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Former solicitor seeking appeal against conviction for stealing more than €18m from financial institutions
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Journalist Siobhan Long faced a stressful period in 2007 when Lynn, then a solicitor amassing a sizeable property portfolio, briefly ran out of finance trying to buy her home
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Relative described the months after his financial misdemeanours came to light as ‘like there was someone dead in the family’
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Former property tycoon who spent years in prison in Brazil fighting extradition is now in an Irish jail
Former solicitor has been convicted of stealing almost €18m from six financial institutions, 16 years after his boom-era property and financial dealings came to light
Former solicitor guilty on 10 charges with jury unable to agree on 11 further counts
Home loans manager says he never met or spoke with him
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Former solicitor says he was driven but was not a thief
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Multimillion-euro theft trial involves 21 counts
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