A man who failed to make tax returns to the Revenue Commissioners has been remanded for sentence next month at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Martin Joyce (38), Dunsink Lane, Finglas, pleaded guilty before Judge Patricia Ryan to three charges of failing to make annual returns for the tax years 1997-1998, 2000-2001 and 2002- 2003.
Judge Ryan adjourned sentence after being told by Ben Ó Floinn, prosecuting and Richard Humphreys, defending, that Joyce would appear before Judge Desmond Hogan in May on another matter. She remanded Joyce on continuing bail.
Joyce was convicted in February of running an illegal oil-laundering operation at Primatestown, Co Meath, in 2003.
He was arrested for the oil-laundering operation following several months of surveillance by Customs and Excise officers.
Documentation from the land registry showed that "Martin Joyce of 19 St Mary's Park, Castleknock", was the registered owner of the Primatestown site.
The jury heard there was no such address in Castleknock and while there was a St Mary's Park off Dunsink Lane in Finglas, there was no number 19.
A lorry found on the Meath site was registered under the name of "Martin Joyce of Primatestown, Ashbourne" and an invoice found inside it, bearing the name "Mark Price", showed that 15,000 litres of marked oil and 4,000 litres of kerosene had been delivered there in August 2003.
Margaret Byrne of Texoil Ltd, pointed out Joyce in court as the person she knew as "Mark Price" to whom she sold marked gas oil two or three times a month between 2001 and 2003. She said he would buy 15,000 or 20,000 litres at a time and would always pay for it in cash before delivery.