THERE WILL BE a familiar face at the Dublin District Court today as Seán Fitzpatrick returns to face 12 charges, including making misleading statements to auditors of Anglo Irish Bank during the 2000s.

He is accused of failing to disclose loans between Anglo and Irish Nationwide Building Society, to auditors Ernst & Young between 2000 and 2012.

The former chairman was also charged with failing to disclose the true amount of loans made by the bank to him or to parties connected with him.

• READ: The 12 charges against Seán Fitzpatrick

The offences are alleged to have occurred at various dates, each at the end of November or beginning of December, in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007.

The book of evidence against the 64-year-old was served last December. He was granted bail by Judge Michael Walsh on his own bond of €1,000.

A second case against Fitzpatrick, which also implicates the bank’s former finance director Willie McAteer and the former managing director of Irish operations Patrick Whelan, will be heard in January next year.

Last July the trio were charged with providing unlawful financial assistance to 16 clients in order for those clients to buy shares in the bank in July 2008. The 16 people include members of the Quinn family and the so-called Maple 10.

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