For much of 2018, officials from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) traversed the globe for a series of confidential meetings with two Dubai fixers they believed were central to the Quinn family’s alleged €500 million asset-stripping scheme. One took place in Dubai. Another in the Italian city of Milan. Further meetings were held in Copenhagen and Zurich. Three separate meetings took place in London. Despite the varied locations, all the meetings had one common agenda: to reach an entente between IBRC and the two principals of Senat Legal, a hulking Swiss financial adviser called Michael Waechter and a Dutch…

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