SIPTU urged to ‘come clean’ on account fund

THE country’s largest trade union, SIPTU, has been accused of withholding information from a major HSE inquiry.

The probe seeks to discover how more than €5 million was paid into a controversial bank account, which financed 40 overseas trips for senior public servants and trade union officials.

The scandal surrounding a SIPTU bank account deepened yesterday when it emerged there was no trace of €190,000 supposedly paid into it in 2001.