taken in for further questioning. Phil Flynn, who was chairman of the Bank of Scotland (Ireland), a former Sinn Féin vice president and an advisor to the Taoiseach, told the police that he was a non-executive director of Chesterton Finance, a company owned by Cunningham. In consequence, his home and offices were raided and he resigned his positions pending the results of the enquiries. The head of the Northern Ireland Policing Board also resigned because he was a non-executive director of a company linked to Flynn. The next day (18 February), Gardaí in Passage West, Cork, arrested a man who had been reported to be burning sterling banknotes in his back garden; he was released without charge then eventually convicted in 2009 regarding 200 rounds of ammunition for a Kalashnikov rifle which were found in his loft when the house was raided. Another Cork man handed in £175,000 then soon afterwards three businessmen handed in a total of £225,000, all four people claimed Cunningham had asked them to look after the money. Cunningham was connected to business interests in Bulgaria and analysts suggested that he was helping the IRA to launder money there by investing in property. In a separate incident on Saturday 19 February 2005, the PSNI confirmed that it had recovered £50,000 in unused Northern Bank notes from the toilets at the Newforge Country Club, a sports and social club in Belfast for serving and retired police officers. The PSNI stated it was a stunt attempting to divert attention from the heist yet it was being investigated. It was later confirmed that the money found at the club had indeed been taken during the robbery. On 12 October, Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy told a law enforcement conference in Dublin he was satisfied that the money recovered in Cork in February came from the Northern Bank robbery. In November, the PSNI arrested five men: two in Kilcoo, County Down and one each in Belfast, Dungannon and Coalisland. In protest, crowds blocked the road between Castlewellan and Newry near Kilcoo with burnt-out vehicles. Hugh Orde defended the police action as "proportionate" whilst Sinn Féin MP Michelle Gildernew claimed the raids were "part of a political stunt". A man from Kilcoo was charged with robbery, hostage-taking and possession of a firearm or imitation firearm. The individual arrested in Dungannon was named as Brian Arthurs, a member of Sinn Féin and brother