Garda faces charges of corruption

A GARDA is facing charges of corruption after his role in facilitating an illegal trafficking and prostitution operation in the west of Ireland.

The garda, who is from Sligo but who has been based elsewhere, has been suspended for the past two years and has been the subject of a long-running probe by the Garda National Immigration Bureau and the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

It is alleged the garda stamped and falsified documents for a Nigerian woman, who worked as a prostitute, so she could remain in the country.