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Dolphin Trust

Legal

Dolphin Trust-linked case defendant alleges liquidator is being illegally funded

  • Catherine Sanz
  • August 6, 2022
Legal

Liquidator of Dolphin Trust-linked company steps aside as his replacement is confirmed

Anthony Fitzpatrick asked to be substituted as the liquidation of RE Administration had gone on for far longer than he expected
  • Catherine Sanz
  • June 25, 2022
Legal

Broken trust: The fight to recover invested funds from doomed Dolphin venture

A group of about 1,800 Irish investors placed a collective €107 million in German Property Group, formerly Dolphin Trust, before it collapsed in 2020. Some are seeking restitution in the courts, but a long legal battle lies ahead if they are ever to get their money back
  • Catherine Sanz
  • June 4, 2022

Brokers back probe into Dolphin’s Irish arm

GPG redress group told investors it would fund the liquidator’s work, including legal action
  • Róisín Burke
  • December 5, 2021

Liquidator to take legal action in Dolphin Trust case

Value of main property in bankrupt German fund’s Irish portfolio is assessed as minuscule, with small investors set to suffer ‘enormous’ loss
  • Róisín Burke
  • October 31, 2021

Dolphin Trust liquidator: German properties will deliver very little return

Myles Kirby has warned Irish investors who put money into the doomed investment fund that only a fraction of their investments will be recouped
  • Róisín Burke
  • August 1, 2021

Regulator moves against Wealth Options Trustees

The Pensions Authority, supported by the Revenue Commissioners, is taking unprecedented legal action to remove the Irish administrator of the collapsed Dolphin Trust property group from its list of pension schemes
  • Róisín Burke
  • June 20, 2021

Pensions Authority seeks removal of Dolphin Trust investment trustee

State’s pensions watchdog has lodged proceedings with the High Court seeking the removal of Wealth Options Trustees
  • Róisín Burke
  • June 9, 2021

Problems at Dolphin Trust were revealed in 2019, recording shows

Recording of meeting shows difficulties were evident long before Irish investors realised the gravity of the situation
  • Róisín Burke
  • May 30, 2021

Irish investors in collapsed Dolphin Trust owed €50.5m by one company

Myles Kirby, the liquidation specialist overseeing the wind up of MUT103, has requested an update from Dentons, the lawyers tasked with establishing the nature of the security held by Irish investors
  • Róisín Burke
  • May 2, 2021

Ian Guider: Dolphin Trust scandal shows authorities still too slow to act in investors’ interests

The grey areas that exist in this country regarding unregulated investments need to be tackled before even more of our citizens are taken advantage of
  • Ian Guider
  • May 2, 2021

Russian investors were repaid millions just before Dolphin Trust collapse

German court hears how the bust property group compensated Russians while 1,800 Irish investors could lose €107 million
  • Róisín Burke
  • April 28, 2021

Legal advice on Irish investors’ interests in Dolphin Trust ‘cannot be disclosed’

Wealth Options Trustees tells brokers seeking answers for the bust property group’s clients that the advice is ‘commercially sensitive’
  • Róisín Burke
  • April 25, 2021

Dolphin Trust brokers’ group complains to Garda fraud unit

A group of 40 firms representing 1,180 Irish investors wants the National Bureau for Economic Crime to investigate the collapsed property group
  • Róisín Burke
  • April 23, 2021

Pearse Doherty raises ‘heartbreaking’ losses suffered by Irish Dolphin Trust investors

Sinn Féin finance spokesman asks in Dáil why Central Bank took no action
  • Michael Brennan
  • April 22, 2021

Dolphin Trust paper trail shows flow of money to ‘DT Cayman’ account

Accounts of related company show €7 million flowed out of Ireland to an account in Britain called ‘DT Cayman’ in a single three-month period
  • Róisín Burke
  • April 19, 2021

Dolphin Trust assets worth ‘a fraction’ of funds raised, Irish liquidator warns investors

Myles Kirby, the court appointed liquidator of Dolphin linked company MUT103, has said ‘it remains to be seen what funds, if any’, will be available to distribute to investors
  • Róisín Burke
  • March 29, 2021

German police search home of Dolphin Trust founder

Prosecutors seize servers, data and files from offices linked to Charles Smethurst’s collapsed property fund in which 1,800 Irish people invested
  • Róisín Burke
  • March 16, 2021

‘Distressed’ sale of assets related to Dolphin Trust took place in 2017

Private equity firm Vordere acquired properties from now-bankrupt Dolphin two years before Irish investors alerted to problems with investments worth €107m
  • Róisín Burke
  • March 14, 2021

Dolphin Trust case judgment reveals struggle of elderly investor to find answers

Kathleen Dineen, 78, sent a string of letters in a bid to find out why she hadn’t received payment on her investment before eventually seeking an order to wind up the company involved
  • Róisín Burke
  • March 10, 2021

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