Full coverage: Alan Hynes

Wexford businessman Frank Hynes has received a six figure penalty after a Revenue audit found he had deliberately declared his taxes two years running. Separately the former director of the liquidated Hynes Jewellers is the subject of fraudulent and reckless trading proceedings.

The High Court froze the assets of disqualified accountant Alan Hynes and his businessman cousin Frank Hynes over concerns that €1 million had allegedly been siphoned out of a liquidated company's bank account. Undeterred, the Hynes' are taking on the legal fight - by themselves. This is their side of the story.

Hynes Jewellers was a Wexford institution, specialising in high quality diamonds and jewellery. Until it all collapsed. Amid claims of fraudulent trading what follows is an interwoven tale of a family business, a property venture, and a disqualified accountant