Professor Willie Donnelly:

The core issue was the amount of items that went through the president's account. There appeared to be a huge range of items that went through that account. It is the basis of a legal issue at present. We, as an institute, from what I can see from reading the data around it, separated those items into which were items for the institute and which perhaps should have been in another account, items which were for duties carried out as the president under his own account and a smaller number of other items. We did an examination of the expenses which also highlighted expenses that were not necessarily for institute business purposes and others for which it was seen there may have been personal benefit. It was only on these latter categories that the actions initiated by the institute were grounded, that is, the institute sought repayment for those items.