The trial of the Island’s Attorney General Stephen Harding is due to continue at Douglas Courthouse later.
Yesterday, Manx businessman Jonathan Irving blamed 52 year old Stephen Harding of Glen Vine for destroying his reputation.
Mr Harding denies committing acts against public justice and perjury.
The court heard Mr Irving’s Street Heritage company was wound up in 2010 over an unpaid tax bill of £180,000.
Mr Irving told the court he’d raised enough funds to cover his tax bill and rang Mr Harding, a government advocate at the time, to tell him the day before the hearing was due to take place.
But the Irving’s advocate got the time of the hearing wrong and missed the hearing - and Mr Harding kept quiet about the company's plans to pay.
Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said that silence was a "failure in Mr Harding's public duty" which later led to a formal reprimand at an advocate’s disciplinary tribunal.
Defence QC David Farrer put it to Mr Irving he’d paid other creditors and cheques to the Treasury had bounced.
He said Mr Irving didn’t trust government officials and had been withholding money from the treasury for years.
The trial continues.
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