One of the objections Mark Scott raised against the DOJ providing witness testimony via CCTV was the timing.

Mr. Scott and his counsel cannot take a multiday trip to Ireland (which Mr. Scott too would be entitled to attend) while also preparing for a trial the Government has consistently sought to delay.

In an October 10th response filing, the DOJ reveals it isn’t so much the government wasting time as Scott asserts.

Rather it’s the Bank of Ireland employees they hope to present screwing them around.

The DOJ traveled to Ireland to interview eight BOI employee witnesses earlier this year in March.

During the March 2019 interviews of the BOI witnesses, the Government and witnesses generally discussed future trial testimony in the United States.

Based on those discussions, the Government understood that the witnesses would be willing to travel to the United States to testify.

A month later the DOJ informed the BOI that they intended to call several of their employees as trial witnesses.

The BOI was informed the employees would have to travel to New York for Scott’s trial.

Neither the BOI or its employees objected or raised any concerns.

In August the DOJ informed the BOI of the specific employees it wished to call, and offered to cover their testimony travel costs.

The BOI told the DOJ they’d relay the message to the employees (one of which no longer worked at the bank).

It wasn’t however until early September, that the BOI’s lawyers informed the DOJ that while the employees were willing to testify, they were now unwilling to travel to the US.

Discussions between the BOI, its employees and the DOJ continued into October, leading up to the
DOJ’s September 29th CCTV motion
.

Over the past week, the DOJ has additionally learned that, despite previous representations and assurances, none of the BOI’s employees are now willing to testify voluntarily.

A Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty between the US and Ireland means the DOJ is still able to compel the BOI employees to testify – but why is a mystery.

Before we get into that though, the DOJ writes that on October 9th it submitted an MLAT request to the Central Authority of Ireland.

If granted, the request will compel the BOI employees to testify. How that testimony will be presented in court is still up in the air, pending a decision on the DOJ’s CCTV motion.

The BOI’s employees sudden backflip on assisting the DOJ is pretty suspicious, although how I’m not exactly sure.

There’s a few angles to take into consideration here:

the employees know more than they let on and are worried about their own liability;

the BOI is worried about potential liability; and/or

something something Bulgarian and/or Russian mafia something something.

Although I’ve omitted them here, the names of the employees the DOJ intends to compel have been made public in their filings.

Interested parties have those names and where these individuals work, so uh… yeah. Insert wild conspiracy theories here.

With respe

🤖 Quick Answer

What obstacles did Bank of Ireland employees create for DOJ witness testimony in the OneCoin case?
BOI employees hindered DOJ plans by becoming unavailable or uncooperative for remote testimony via CCTV from Ireland. The Government had interviewed eight BOI witnesses in March 2019 regarding potential trial testimony in the United States, but subsequent scheduling and logistical complications emerged, complicating the prosecution's witness presentation strategy.

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