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Scandal-hit company set up by Catriona Carey is struck off

The company, with an address on Merrion Square, has failed to file accounts of any kind since February of 2020

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A company set up by Catriona Carey, which named convicted fraudster Paddy Maher as a co-director, has been listed for strike off by the Companies Registration Office – as it continues a major clear out of rogue companies.

MP&P Private Commercial Investments Ltd, which lists it principal activity as ‘fund management activities’ was listed for strike off on Monday of this week.

The company, with an address on Merrion Square, has failed to file accounts of any kind since February of 2020.

The company is the fifth, linked to Carey, to have been listed for strike-off in recent weeks. They were all involved in funds, trusts or financial activities, according to company records.

Carey was listed as a director of four of them and was a former director and part owner of the fifth.

Carey was listed as the sole owner of Careysfort Asset Estates Ltd in Ireland which was listed for strike off on January 10.

The other directors include Paddy Maher, who is also being investigated for his alleged role in the Careysfort Assets Estates mortgage scam.

The UK arm of the company is alleged to have been used by Carey to defraud distressed property owners through a fake mortgage buy-back scheme.

The probe centres on allegations Carey claimed she would buy loans from their lenders and sell the loan back to them at a discount once they paid Careysfort Asset Estates a deposit.

Three people were arrested in ­connection with the investigation into the UK firm but no formal charges have been brought.

​ It’s been nearly two years since RTÉ Investigates exposed how more than €200,000 received by the company was instead spent on holidays, designer clothes, furniture and a €55,000 BMW.