Full coverage: Fraud

The creditors of Boxer Logistics, including Revenue officials pursuing wage subsidy payments, are suspended to efforts by the company’s liquidators to track down its former owners through the courts after they left the country.

The underground and self-contained world of the supply and demand of dinosaurs is full of more interesting and unique characters than Alice in Wonderland. And it is notoriously secretive, as I discovered on my journey into dinosauronomics.

Orpea had become a Paris stock market darling and a world leader in private care but it all came crashing down over the course of this year. A two-part investigation explores the impact on its recent drive into Ireland.

After a year investigating the collapse of Irish Gold and Silver Bullion, the liquidators realised they were not just winding up a company. Instead, they were untangling an alleged “Ponzi" scheme.

French actor Dany Boon claims he was cheated out of millions of euro by Terry Birles, a purported Irish lord and maritime expert. The man he accuses of spearheading the swindle says: "We intend to challenge all those baseless accusations".

The tracker scandal was not an outlier for AIB. As the sad tale of the Belfry Funds shows, the bank has repeatedly put its own interests above those of its customers.

Lukasz Salamandra claimed his Athboy company owned millions in real estate assets. In fact, it owned nothing. The convicted fraudster is now prohibited from serving as a company director for 15 years.

The former directors of a luxury car importer and exporter are being pursued for the tax debts of the company, which are said to exceed €2 million.

A husband and wife stopped paying their mortgage in 2017. Instead, deploying a playbook devised by so-called “charlatans” and “fraudsters”, they made 27 arguments as to why they should not have to pay the money. The result? A repossession order.

1,800 Irish investors are facing potential losses of €100m through Dolphin Trust. But how did it happen, and will they get their money back? Interviews with the Irish liquidators and others centrally involved reveal the status – and focus – of the Irish investigations.