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| Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick has been arrested at Dublin airport |
The former
head of Anglo Irish Bank, Sean FitzPatrick, has been arrested by Irish police
in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the bank.
Mr
FitzPatrick is expected to appear in court in Dublin later on Tuesday.
He will be
the third former senior executive from Anglo Irish Bank to appear in court as a
result of the investigation within the past 24 hours.
Anglo was
nationalised at a cost of about 30bn euros (£23.4bn) to Irish taxpayers.
Airport
arrest
Mr
FitzPatrick served as chief executive and then chairman of the bank, before
stepping down in December 2008, a month before it had to be bailed out by the
state.
Irish
police arrested him at about 05:35 BST on Tuesday at Dubin airport and took him
to Bridewell Garda station in the city centre.
It is the
third time Mr FitzPatrick has been arrested as part of the three-and-a-half
year long investigation into the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank.
On Monday, Willie
McAteer - the second in command at the bank before his resignation in January
2009 - appeared in court alongside Pat Whelan, a former head of lending and
operations at the bank.
They are
facing 16 charges in relation to an alleged failed attempt to prop up Anglo's
share price after a stock market collapse.
Mr McAteer,
60, from Rathgar in Dublin, was granted bail until 8 October but was was
ordered to hand in his passport.
Mr Whelan,
50, from Malahide in County Dublin, was also granted bail but was ordered to
give 48 hours notice if he is travelling anywhere outside Ireland or the UK.
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