{"id":624756,"date":"2025-12-10T18:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624756\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:58:13","slug":"nama-trial-there-may-or-may-not-have-been-conflict-of-interest-over-sale-of-ni-loan-book-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624756\/","title":{"rendered":"Nama trial: There \u2018may or may not\u2019 have been conflict of interest over sale of NI loan book, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Frank Cushnahan is on trial at Belfast Crown Court\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8541ef7d-024f-48e0-9024-888ec8600ec2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Frank Cushnahan is on trial at Belfast Crown Court<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There &#8220;may not have been&#8221; an actual conflict of interests in relation to the proposed sale of the Northern Ireland loan book to investment fund Pimco, a court heard today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Aideen O&#8217;Reilly, the former head of the legal department of the Dublin-based National Assets Management Agency (Nama), was the latest witness called to give evidence at a fraud trial being held in Belfast Crown Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Cushnahan is on trial at Belfast Crown Court There &#8220;may not have been&#8221; an actual conflict of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[7742,1144,16,15],"class_list":["post-624756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-nama","tag-northern-ireland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115696810536966859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}