He ordered his employee to destroy evidence.
Businessman Jim Mansfield Junior has been jailed for 18 months for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The 54-year-old, who is a son of the late hotelier Jim Mansfield Senior, was found to have ordered an employee of his to destroy CCTV evidence.
On June 9th 2015, Martin Byrne was abducted from a meeting he attended at the request of Jim Mansfield Jnr.
A gang bundled him into the back of a car and took him to his home where he was held against his will until a Garda happened to come upon the scene.
Mr Byrne, who used to provide security for the Mansfields, accused his former boss of 'delivering him up' to this gang.
Mansfield was acquitted of being part of a conspiracy to falsely imprison him, but convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice by ordering another employee of his to destroy CCTV footage, which showed him leaving the family’s hotel in Dublin with Mr Byrne on the morning of his abduction.
The court was satisfied that Mansfield knew full well it would form part of a serious criminal investigation.
Mr Justice Alex Owens said he ordered its destruction to distance himself from what happened and to 'hide his association with gangsters.'
He was handed a two-year prison sentence with the final six months suspended.
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