Three civil servants made £75m as part of a management teamwhich bought Belfast international airport from the government for£32.75m and sold it two years later for £107.9m.
The public employees also paid £1 for a hotel which cost£5m to build one year previously, according to a report to theHouse of Commons public accounts committee.
The airport sale is one of many examples of the misuse of publicfunds in a £100m plan to regenerate Belfast. Projects ranged from amassive shopping complex in the city centre to a greyhound exercisetrack at the back of the Newtonabbey council yard.
- The Guardian 09/03/98 page 6
