ODCE: ‘Enormous’ task to set up crime unit

Setting up a specialist division to tackle white- collar crime would be an “enormous” task and an “extraordinary challenge”, the office responsible for monitoring corporate compliance has said, writes Pádraig Hoare.

Setting up a specialist division to tackle white- collar crime would be an “enormous” task and an “extraordinary challenge”, the office responsible for monitoring corporate compliance has said, writes Pádraig Hoare.

The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) was responding after the Central Bank said this week it would support the setting up of a specialist division in light of “understandable public concern” around white-collar crime and the banking crash.