"GAA star in alleged scam" Mod Note on page 1 and 2

Why is the year of the write down stated as 2017 in the rte article. But the agreement and property sales detailed in court go back to 2011 and 2012?

States in the article:

In 2017, a reporter from this newspaper contacted him about an alleged cancer diagnosis and got the following response by text: “I received a letter from you this morning. I hope you are well. Thank you for the sensitive words in it. It’s a matter that I want and need to keep private and don’t wish to have out in public. Thank you for your understanding.”

He has also experienced financial troubles, with a number of debt judgments being secured against him over the years

He has claimed to numerous individuals that he is suffering from a rare bone marrow cancer and needs to receive urgent care abroad in the US.

However, those who donated to him out of kindness now fear they may have been deceived. While claiming to be unable to afford the treatment himself, he was a regular at luxury hotels and golf courses.

“He was here pretty much every day up until very recently,” said a staff member at a golf resort. Another staff member at a five-star hotel said he was “a regular face” but they hadn’t seen him in around “six or seven months”.

Independent.ie has also learned that in recent years he was employed by a small business in the south-east but left after a short period.

He has also experienced financial troubles, with a number of debt judgments being secured against him over the years. The sports figure has no previous convictions.

In 2017, gardaí received intelligence on the individual due to concerns about mortgage documentation. However, it was never acted on or investigated.

Since the allegations of fraud emerged, many in his home county have been reluctant to speak out

A senior source said: “For it to be acted upon, someone would have had to make a formal complaint, but no formal complaint was ever made so it was never followed up.”

It is understood the intelligence was received by gardaí from the Revenue Commissioners.

That is in itself a lazy logic.

There's a culture of fraud and greed at the heart of this. And banks and politicians and their loanees are all connected in this. There are people who took advantage of people in the pursuit of profit. Illegally. This is another instance of this culture, directly related to that period of time.

Is there are reason the <admin snip> and scam article are been linked. If not its difficult to see who is writing about which.

<admin snip> has yet to comment on the story - but Mr Richmond said he was not aware of any other write downs of that size at a State-owned bank.

“Whilst yet the State have an effective ownership they didn’t have policy direction over the bank,” he told RTE's 'Saturday with Colm Ó Mongáin' show.

But he added: “Anyone reading that story overnight, it is extremely worrying, and personally I’d like to see AIB come before the Finance Committee to lay out exactly the nature of this and indeed address the question ‘were there other write downs?’ and to explain and to have a debate.”

DJ Carey debt write-down: Minister calls for AIB to answer questions over deal on €9.5m debt - Independent.ie

They say one of the places Quinn hid his money was in Switzerland. Just saying.