Drug trade-linked garda investigated over car tax scam
Ex-detective garda Tom Higgins, named in an intelligence file linking him to the drug trade, was previously investigated over his alleged involvement in a tax scam.
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Gardaí kept jobs despite garda intelligence linking them to organised crime
An internal garda intelligence file named three Athlone gardaí suspected of involvement in the midlands drug trade.
Donohoe ignored allegations of financial wrongdoing in his constituency, signed off on state deal for lender
Donohoe ignored allegations a partly state-owned financial institution knowingly loaned almost €10 million to a company acting as a front for a property developer in debt to Nama.
Attorney general’s advice to government on planning amendment in full
On 2 February, 2024 attorney general Rossa Fanning wrote to minister Darragh O'Brien and the coalition leaders with his advice to government on a controversial amendment to the Planning and Development Bill 2023. Here is the advice in full. Download it at the links above and below.
Garda suspended for bike loan assisted whistleblower colleague, was identified in tribunal
The garda suspended for lending a bicycle to an elderly man assisted a whistleblower colleague who’d raised evidence of another guard’s collusion in the drug trade. The suspended garda – as well as the assistance he gave the whistleblower – was identified to colleagues during a tribunal.