An official at the Land Registry in Dublin has been suspended and is facing 47 corruption charges for allegedly illegally receiving money over a 2½-year period for documents he sold to a Dublin-based law agent.
Liam Rainsford (42), of Cremore Heights, Glasnevin, Dublin, is charged with 47 counts of corruptly accepting cheques, drawn on the bank account of Dooley's Law Agents Ltd.
He is charged that he accepted the cheques "as a reward for or otherwise on account of doing an act, namely the supply of copy folios/file plans" in his capacity as an officer of the Land Registry.
The 47 charges run from December 2000 to May 2003.
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The overall sum involved is just under €17,000.