Shatter ‘frustrated’ by Drumm’s failure to help Garda probes

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter has expressed his disappointment that former Anglo chief executive David Drumm is not co-operating with Garda investigations into suspected offences at the bank.

But Mr Shatter said that while he shared people’s frustration over the issue, the case was very different to that of US financier Bernie Madoff, who was rapidly imprisoned in the US after a multi-billion-dollar fraud was exposed.

Mr Shatter was reacting to a report yesterday which suggested the gardaí had abandoned attempts to interview Mr Drumm, who is now living in Boston and refusing to co-operate with the national fraud bureau’s inquiries into Anglo.