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Ansbacher: The main players

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Monday July 08, 2002 10:13author by kahootz Report this post to the editors

A list of the main players in *one* of the tangled webs which is unravelling

Ansbacher (Cayman) Ltd: A Cayman Islands bank formerly known as Guinness Mahon Cayman Trust (GMCT).

Guinness & Mahon: An Irish merchant bank with an address on College Green, Dublin. Now owned by Permanent TSB.

CRH plc: Cement Roadstone Holdings, a major Irish public company.

Desmond Traynor: Former director of CRH and Guinness &Mahon and founder chairman of GMCT.

Hamilton Ross Co Ltd: A Cayman Islands company owned by Ansbacher (Cayman) Ltd and used to hold funds belonging to a number of clients, including Mr Charles Haughey.

Padraig Collery: A Dublin-based banker and computer expert who assisted Mr Traynor in the Ansbacher operation in Dublin.

Joan Williams: Long time secretary to Des Traynor who helped run the Irish Ansbacher operation.

John Collins: A Cayman Islands banker and one of the early directors of GMCT.

IIB: IIB Bank, formerly Irish Intercontinental Bank. Mr Traynor placed the Ansbacher Deposits in IIB Bank after he moved them from Guinness & Mahon in the early 1990s.

John Furze: A Cayman Islands banker and one of the early directors of GMCT.

Guinness Mahon & Co Ltd: The former London parent of Guinness & Mahon.

Investec Bank (UK) Ltd: Current owners of Guinness Mahon & Co, London.

Henry Ansbacher Holdings plc: Current parent of Ansbacher (Cayman) Ltd, formerly GMCT, which it bought in 1988.

Sam Field-Corbett: Former employee of Haughey Boland who set up his own company, Management Investment Services.

Following Mr Traynor's death in 1994 Mr Field-Corbett's offices were used to store documents connected with the Ansbacher Deposits.

First National Bank of Southern Africa: Bought the Henry Ansbacher group in 1993.

Bank of Ireland Private Banking Ltd: Arm of the Bank of Ireland which looks after accounts of high net worth individuals.

Jack Stakelum: Another former Haughey Boland employee. After he went into business on his own he placed some clients' funds with Ansbacher through Mr Traynor.


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