A businessman has claimed J & E Davy stockbrokers made a windfall profit of some â¬25 million from bonds it sold on his behalf after he was allegedly fraudulently misled by senior executives in the firm.
In Commercial Court proceedings, Patrick Kearney says he learned about the alleged concealment after Davy was recently fined a record â¬4.1 million by the Central Bank because of the manner in which the stockbrokers sold his bonds.
Davy, while acting as his agent in the sale to what he was assured was a third party, had in fact sold them to the âOâConnell Partnershipâ which was controlled by Davy, he claims.