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Judge wants more information before sanctioning Quinn expenses

A High Court judge has said he will require a lot more information before sanctioning day to day living expenses for members of Sean Quinn's family.

Mr Justice Peter Kelly made his comments after being shown a schedule of expenses sought by members of the Quinn family.

The court heard expenses were not being sought on behalf of Sean Quinn's nephew Peter Darragh Quinn, who has not been heard from since the early hours of Friday morning.

The court heard that his solicitors will be applying to be allowed to stop representing him.

The former Anglo Irish Bank wants to continue freezing orders against accounts belonging to Sean Quinn's children, and two sons in law.

It also wants to appoint receivers to their assets.

The court heard the Quinns would be consenting to the orders sought by the bank.

The Quinns have submitted a sworn document outlining their expenses.

They have previously been granted living expenses of €2,000 a week each.

But Mr Justice Peter Kelly said he would require a lot more information than what was contained in the document before sanctioning the expenses.

The court heard details of money paid to members of the Quinn family and to their partners since April 2011.

Senior Counsel Paul Gallagher for the bank, said since April 2011 they had received payments purporting to be salaries for work allegedly done for Russian companies ranging from €260,000 to Ciara Quinn's husband Niall McPartland to almost €475,000 to Peter Quinn.

Sean Quinn Junior's wife Karen Woods received more than €320,000.

Aoife, Colette and Ciara Quinn each received more than €300,000.

The bank says there is no explanation as to what has been done with this money.

The bank is also querying the transfer of 100,000 shares in subsidiaries of the Quinns international property company Quinn Investments Sweden to a woman called Noreen Mary Maguire for €10.

The bank says it does not know who she is.

The IBRC is seeking disclosure orders against a number of offshore companies.

It will continue its case tomorrow.