When staff from the boutique insolvency firm Kirby Healy turned up at the Monkstown headquarters of Irish Gold and Silver Bullion three years ago, they discovered the office had been vacated. There were no files and no computers. There was a single monitor on a desk, but it was not connected to anything. Incorporated in July 2011 and located at the time at 23, The Crescent, Monkstown, the company claimed to be the “largest dealer of silver and gold bullion online”. However, when it collapsed into liquidation, one of the few things Kirby Healy found at the premises was a search…

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