Former industrial relations trouble-shooter and financier Mr Phil Flynn has been summonsed to appear in court in October on firearms offences.
Phil Flynn
Mr Flynn will appear in Dublin District Court charged over the alleged possession of a firearm and ammunition. A Garda spokesman confirmed the court date.
The firearm has been described as a "pen gun", which resembles a pen and fires a small projectile.
Mr Flynn was questioned last February by the Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) about his non-executive directorship of Chesterton Finance Company Ltd, a Co Cork-based lending firm at the centre of a Garda money-laundering inquiry that has led to the seizure of almost €3 million in cash.
Mr Flynn has denied any role in money laundering, describing Chesterton as, in his view, "clean".
Mr Flynn, who has described himself as an "unrepentant republican", stepped down as a non-executive director of property firm Harcourt Developments Ltd earlier this year amid the controversy over the Garda investigation into the alleged money laundering by the republican movement.
Mr Flynn also resigned as chairman of the Government committee on decentralisation, as chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland), and as a director of the VHI.
The firearms charges emerged after a file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions following Cab searches of Mr Flynn's offices in Harcourt Street, Dublin.
Mr Flynn is a former vice-chairman of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and has been described as one of the architects of social partnership in Ireland.