{"id":483873,"date":"2026-05-14T07:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483873\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:02:13","slug":"entrepreneur-illann-power-sues-garda-commissioner-after-being-unsuccessfully-prosecuted-12-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483873\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur Illann Power sues Garda Commissioner after being unsuccessfully prosecuted 12 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Businessman says he missed out on $18m stock options as a result\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illann Power claims he suffered distress and reputational damage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0759576a_6493_4d1e_a0a0_ae.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Illann Power claims he suffered distress and reputational damage<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A businessman has sued the Garda Commissioner for wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution after being repeatedly charged with breaching a restraining order, only for each case to be either dismissed or withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The lawsuit is being taken by Carlow-born entrepreneur Illann Power (34), who claims he lost out on stock options worth $18m (\u20ac15.4m) as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Businessman says he missed out on $18m stock options as a result Illann Power claims he suffered distress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[956,79,18,19,17,8661],"class_list":{"0":"post-483873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-shane-phelan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116571651761820691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483873","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=483873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}