The High Court in Belfast has heard how a solicitor allegedly used his position to pass on information to loyalist paramilitary leaders and attempt to have a man killed.
Manmohan "Johnny" Sandhu (41) is accused of phoning an associate in an attempt to have Ulster Volunteer Force gun attack victim Jonathan Hillier killed as he lay in the Ulster Hospital.
The lawyer also allegedly contacted a UVF boss in east Belfast and urged him to hide a man suspected of involvement in another murder carried out by that organisation during a violent feud last summer.
Details were disclosed as Sandhu, of Colby Avenue, Derry, was granted bail but banned from Antrim Serious Crime Suite, where he was covertly bugged.
He was recorded at least 70 times during consultations with clients at the station, Northern Ireland's only terrorist holding centre.
Sandhu was arrested last Tuesday and interviewed 22 times by detectives before being charged with five offences between July and November last year: four counts of perverting the course of justice and one of attempting to incite the murder of Mr Hillier.
Mr Hillier was shot on the Westwinds estate in Newtownards, Co Down, last August at the height of a bloody dispute between the UVF and splinter Loyalist Volunteer Force.
A prosecuting barrister told the Northern Ireland High Court the case was one of a number in which Sandhu allegedly used his mobile phone to pass information from clients at the holding centre to senior UVF representatives.
David Hopley told the court that police believe Sandhu made a telephone call to an unknown person saying that he (Mr Hillier) was at the Ulster Hospital on the outskirts of east Belfast.
The barrister alleged that Sandhu said in this conversation: "He's got to be taken out. He hasn't made a statement yet."
Mr Hopley added: "That related to Mr Hillier, who was at that stage in the Ulster Hospital.
"Also, while consulting with a client at Antrim Serious Crime Suite, the client raised the possibility of the trial not going ahead if the victim, Mr Hillier, cannot attend."