Inquiry as drug smuggler given haulage licence

THE law supposed to stop a convicted drug smuggler from getting a road haulage licence was not clear enough to keep him from setting up a new importation business.

This is according to a preliminary report presented to Transport Minister Noel Dempsey on the international haulage licence awarded to drug smuggler and alleged Garda super-grass Kieran Boylan.

New information on Boylan’s case also prompted Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy to make the unusual step of contacting the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC).