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flag An 84-year-old financier was acquitted in a fraud case over a 2013 deal to buy Northern Ireland’s bad loans, despite prosecutors alleging he hid a £5 million fee.

flag An 84-year-old former corporate financier, Frank Cushnahan, was acquitted of fraud charges related to a 2013 attempt to purchase Northern Ireland’s property loan portfolio from Ireland’s NAMA, a government-backed “bad bank” created after the 2008 financial crisis. flag Prosecutors alleged he failed to disclose a potential £5 million success fee from a deal with U.S. firm Pimco, but the jury, after over 10 hours of deliberation, found him not guilty. flag The case, which lasted four months and followed more than a decade of investigation, ended with the loan book ultimately sold to Cerberus for over £1 billion. flag A separate trial for co-accused Ian Coulter has been delayed due to health issues.

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