The Moriarty Tribunal is to be furnished with new evidence revealed in inquiries carried out by officials of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the High Court ruled yesterday.

Mr Eoghan Fitzsimons, SC, counsel for the Tanaiste and Minister, Ms Harney, told Mr Justice Johnson the Moriarty Tribunal was unaware of certain facts in the affidavit of Mr Paul Appleby, an official of the Department, whose evidence grounded yesterday's application for the appointment of inspectors to probe the affairs of Ansbacher (Cayman) Ltd.

Mr Appleby told the court that between January 1987 and November 1992 monies totalling about £1.9 million sterling had been lodged to bank accounts in the name of Ansbacher (Cayman) in Guinness Mahon (GMI) and Irish Intercontinental Bank (IIB). This had apparently been done on the authority of Mr Ben Dunne. Mr Appleby said the circumstances strongly suggested that this money was the source of payments made for the benefit of Mr Charles Haughey and almost £700,000 sterling of this amount had not been disclosed by Mr Dunne or Dunnes Stores to the Moriarty Tribunal.

He said these money transfers had been routed through a number of bank accounts before reaching the main call deposit account of Ansbacher Cayman or a related account in GMI or in IIB.

The purpose of routing such monies through several bank accounts appeared to have been to conceal the source of the funds.

Mr Appleby said the finding of an additional payment of £200,000 sterling made in November 1990 from Wytrex (Far East) Ltd, which was lodged to an account of Ansbacher Cayman and marked for the attention of Mr Traynor, was significant.

He said the Minister's authorised officer, Mr Gerard Ryan, had received copies of bank statements for three bank accounts in Henry Ansbacher & Co Ltd, which were in the name of Ansbacher Cayman.

Examination of the account had revealed what appeared to be a further Dunnes Stores payment which had not been disclosed to the Tribunal of Inquiry (Dunnes Payments).

Wytrex (Far East) Ltd was the name of the company in the Far East which the Tribunal found to be the source of much of the monies paid by Ben Dunne for the benefit of Mr Charles Haughey. "These payments, which were facilitated by Mr Traynor, may have constituted fraudulent conduct on the part of a number of persons," Mr Appleby said.