Court proceedings against a former Fás manager accused of defrauding the state training agency have been put back until June.
James Brooke-Tyrell (53) of Church Gate, Church Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow, is facing 47 counts of deception by manufacturing a false tender at the agency.
The former-assistant video production manager, based at Fás headquarters in Upper Baggot Street, Dublin, was charged with defrauding more than €600,000 through cheques being issued into accounts controlled by him from 2002 to 2008.
Judge Katherine Delahunt, at the Circuit Criminal Court, put the case back until June 15th.
Mr Brooke-Tyrell was also charged last November with an extra 33 counts for forgery of quotations on headed paper of a number of companies, on dates between 2003 and 2008.
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