{"id":139382,"date":"2025-10-23T00:25:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139382\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:25:25","slug":"director-who-alleged-company-chief-spent-firms-cash-on-housing-and-hiring-girlfriends-wont-be-dismissed-court-hears-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139382\/","title":{"rendered":"Director who alleged company chief spent firm\u2019s cash on housing and hiring girlfriends won\u2019t be dismissed, court hears \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A company at the centre of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/high-court\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/high-court\">High Court<\/a> claims that its founder spent the firm\u2019s money providing homes and jobs for his girlfriends who had allegedly been screened through illicit websites has agreed not to take steps to dismiss a director who made the allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Limerick-based enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software group, HansaWorld, gave the undertakings until the case returns to court early next month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Jennifer O\u2019Carroll, chief operations officer (COO) was given the undertakings in response to claims she made about the manner in which the group\u2019s CEO and majority shareholder, Karl Bohlin, has been running the business and what she considers is his \u201cextravagant personal spending\u201d using company funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/10\/16\/company-boss-used-firms-money-to-hire-and-house-women-screened-from-illicit-websites-says-director\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Company boss used firm\u2019s money to hire and house women screened from illicit websites, says directorOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cSince spring, Mr Bohlin has been primarily concerned with his love life and finding a girlfriend. He has described it as his highest priority,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She claimed Mr Bohlin used the company human resources \u201cto screen the girls from various illicit websites for suitability\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Over recent months, she said, he has \u201cinsisted on hiring these ladies even if they are not suitable candidates\u201d to positions in the company and insisted on using the firm\u2019s funds to lease houses for them, including one in China and another in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ms O\u2019Carroll, who is in her early 40s and lives in Limerick, is seeking orders that HansaWorld Ireland Ltd, HansaWorld Holding Ltd and HansaWorld Inc Ltd lift her suspension as director and company secretary and stop alleged interference in her role as COO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last week, Mr Justice Brian Cregan granted Ms O\u2019Carroll permission to serve proceedings on HansaWorld following an application with only the O\u2019Carroll side represented. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The matter returned on Wednesday when Gary McCarthy SC, for Ms O\u2019Carroll, said the parties had agreed to adjourn the matter to allow the defendants file replying affidavits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They have given undertakings not to take steps to dismiss her from the firm in the interim, counsel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Lawyers for the defendants are awaiting instructions in relation to her removal as a director, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Justice Cregan adjourned the matter to November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A company at the centre of High Court claims that its founder spent the firm\u2019s money providing homes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,10476,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-139382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-high-court","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}