Ms Justice Caroline Costello said Yan Yan Fan (47) had submitted untranslated bank documents written in Mandarin and that they could be 'the secret recipe for Coca Cola' for all the judge knew
A Chinese woman who complained that the reporting of her links to large sums of cash and luxury items that were deemed to be the proceeds of crime made her "more famous than Gerry Hutch" has failed in a motion to have new evidence introduced to her appeal.
The bureau claimed Ms Fan, a mother, used the "daigou" or "surrogate shopping" method of sending luxury goods to China. The CAB claimed these outflows were matched by money transfers by her parents to Ireland, which helped pay for one of her apartments. The judge was persuaded that most of the designer items were purchased, directly or indirectly, with crime proceeds and that €129,231 of the balance in her current account derived from crime proceeds.
Ms Fan had complained to Mr Justice Owens that the reporting of her case had made her "famous, even more than Gerry Hutch". Mr Phillips acknowledged the issue with the documents being in Mandarin but said his client had been unrepresented at the hearing, did not have requisite legal knowledge of what was needed and had acted diligently in making a "bona fide" effort.
Counsel said it was "impossible" to tell if the documents were "influential... good, bad or indifferent".
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