Revealed: McCourt firm owns less than 3 per cent of National Broadband Ireland
Businessman was awarded multibillion-euro contract in exchange for just over €100,000 equity investment
David McCourt was awarded the contract for the €3 billion taxpayer-funded National Broadband Plan in exchange for an equity investment of just €116,564, the Business Post can reveal.
Previously undisclosed documents obtained by this newspaper show that Granahan McCourt Capital LLC, the US businessman’s private investment firm, owns just a 2.7 per cent stake in National Broadband Ireland, the company set up to deliver the largest telecoms project in the history of the state.
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