David Drumm fought a four month battle against extradition from the United States to Ireland. He dropped his legal challenge against extradition in February and will appear in Dublin district court later today.
The 49-year old will be formally charged at a city centre police station after arriving at Dublin airport this morning.
Drumm is accused of forgery, conspiracy and false accounting for loans in 2008 designed to rescue Anglo Irish Bank’s share price. The Dublin-born banker denies any wrongdoing.
A year later Anglo Irish Bank was nationalised with the Irish taxpayer having to pay €30bn (£23bn) to rescue a financial institution that was once the preferred bank of builders and property speculators.
It is unclear yet if Ireland’s director of public prosecutions will oppose bail, which Drumm has applied for.
After nationalisation Drumm left Ireland for the United States and refused repeated requests to come home and be questioned over the bank’s affairs.
During the extradition hearing Drumm was moved from his home in an upmarket area of Boston to the Plymouth County Correctional Centre which his lawyers described as “unrelentingly harsh” and “uncomfortable”.
After the rescue of Anglo Irish Bank, it was nationalised and renamed the Irish Banking Resolution Corporation.
The sharp practices at the bank during the Celtic boom, when it became the major financier for over-stretched Irish developers and investors playing the global property market, caused national outrage in Ireland.
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