Money held by Haughey

The Moriarty tribunal yesterday displayed a tabulated list containing information about money received by Mr Charles Haughey …

The Moriarty tribunal yesterday displayed a tabulated list containing information about money received by Mr Charles Haughey from January 1979 to December 1996. The total came to £8,642,478. The items listed are given below along with some added explanatory information.

1. To settle Mr Haughey's £1.143 million loan with AIB in December 1979, £750,000. Mr Patrick Gallagher gave £300,000 of this and the other donors have not yet been identified.

2. Accounts held in Mr Haughey's name with Guinness & Mahon bank: First account, January 1979 to June 1987, £1,243,530; second account, May 1983 to January 1984, £211,344; third account, November 1981-September 1984, £229,756. There was also a loan account, September-October 1981, for £74,996. The total held in all the accounts was £1,761,629.

3. Two loans were taken out with Guinness & Mahon bank in the mid-1980s in the name of the late Mr P.V. Doyle but used for Mr Haughey's benefit. The total, including interest, was £301,138.

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4. Mr Mahmoud Fustok, an extremely wealthy Saudi Arabian, gave £50,000 to Mr Haughey in 1985 by way of former minister for health Dr John O'Connell.

5. Cheques made out to bearer and given by Mr Ben Dunne. The cheques were lodged to an account in the name of Amiens Securities with Guinness & Mahon bank in January 1987. They totalled £32,200.

6. A loan from Guinness Mahon Cayman Trust of £400,000 sterling in 1983. By January 1985 interest of £95,000 sterling had accumulated. The tribunal has not identified where the money was lodged, or how it was paid off.

7. The Haughey family yacht, the Celtic Mist. It was bought for £120,000 sterling and repaired at a cost of £75,546 sterling with VAT of £21,283. The yacht was bought in January 1989. Mr Dermot Desmond paid for the repairs, the money coming from a bank account in the name of Freezone and which was at the heart of the controversial dealings surrounding the former Johnston Mooney and O'Brien site in Ballsbridge.

8. Share dealings in an account with NCB in the name of Aurum Nominees. The account held a total of £353,522 and when closed the balance was transferred to an account linked to Mr Haughey.

9. An ACC loan of £105,000. This loan was settled in December 1987.

10. Haughey Boland expenditure on Mr Haughey's personal and family bills, in the years 1985 to January 1991: £1.4 million.

11. Expenditure by a company run by Mr Jack Stakelum, who took over the Haughey bill-paying service in February 1991 and ran it until September 1992: £627,328.

12. Mr Haughey's Ansbacher accounts had the following balances on September 30th, 1992: S9 account, £1,203,395 sterling; S8 account, £185,660 sterling.

13. The Dunne Carlisle payment. This payment, from Mr Dunne, was passed through an account in the name of Carlisle Trust, the property development company associated with Mr John Byrne, in November 1992.

14. Payments from Mr Desmond in 1994 and 1996. The payments totalled £125,000 sterling.

15. National Irish Bank lodgements to December 31st, 1996: personal account, £5,317; business account, £420,990; Abbeville savings account, £154,466. Yesterday was the first day those accounts were mentioned and the origin of this money is not yet known. Mr Haughey has not granted the tribunal access to the accounts and a subpoena will be issued.

16. A payment from Mr Dunne called the Wytrex payment, only discovered last year. The November 1990 payment was for £200,000 sterling.

Ignoring the exchange rate difference the total comes to £8.6 million. However, it is inevitable that some amounts of money have been counted twice.

Colm Keena

Colm Keena

Colm Keena is an Irish Times journalist. He was previously legal-affairs correspondent and public-affairs correspondent