From a Reuters story about the Bertie Ahern resignation:

Over the last six months Ahern has repeatedly been called back to answer questions over payments he received from friends and businessmen in the 1990s when he did not have a bank account despite being finance minister.

Now, maybe that's some sort of a misunderstanding (there are a couple of typos earlier in the article, so it was clearly rushed to press), but if it's not... what the hell? How do you not have a bank account?