‘Brightening up’ the books: Anglo phone recordings

Internal emails showed €4bn was withdrawn from the bank in September 2008

Phones were alledely tapped in the Anglo Irish treasury division Picture: Pixabay

“Four or five billion is not going to be a problem. If we ask for six, I think they’ll do it... As they see it, you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.”

The phone recording, recovered from the dealing room of Anglo Irish Bank’s treasury division, was one of several played at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last Friday.

Key witness Matt Cullen, a former treasury director at the ...