Full coverage: Myles Kirby

Trading as Autolines in Co Tipperary, SJK Wholesale Ltd engaged in wilful tax avoidance and bought cars at auction in the UK with money believed by the High Court to be derived from mandate frauds.

The restaurant collapsed the week before Christmas with large tax debts. Soon after the rest of Frank Gleeson's entertainment group toppled. Now he is fighting disqualification proceedings for alleged reckless trading.

Liquidators assigned to several companies controlled by Colm Wu, a hospitality operator who ran venues including gastropub Mulligan & Haines, have alleged there were transactions made at some of those businesses that amounted to fraud.

The Bray-based engineering firm was hoping that €47 million worth of contracts would be awarded in early January and save the company from liquidation. They haven't been and so its fate will be decided later this month.

The liquidator of Irish Gold and Silver Bullion is pursuing a High Court case against a Bristol law firm for the return of money and a gold bar. The action stems from its investigations into the collapse of a Monkstown silver and gold dealer.

Irish Gold and Silver Bullion presented clients with a premium investment even offering to store their gold and silver at high-end facilities. But when it went bust, the UK businessman behind the alleged “Ponzi" scheme went quiet.

The official liquidator of MUT 103, an investment vehicle used to channel money into the collapsed German Property Group (GPG), has lodged legal proceedings against three companies and seven individuals. Investors are owed around €42 million.

Liquidator Myles Kirby has made a secret US move against Chicago based surgeon Joseph Sheehan over the alleged dissipation of €3.25m in Irish company assets. Evidence from a number of former directors may be subpoenaed.

A Taiwanese investor, in Dublin on the golden visa scheme, paid a €1.2 million deposit on an upmarket housing development by Victoria Homes. When the development stalled, he sued. Now the developer's backers are trying to take an axe to the case.