GSOC’s bug experts ‘invited to Garda HQ’

The security firm at the centre of the GSOC bugging crisis has claimed it was invited to Garda headquarters to demonstrate high tech surveillance equipment while it was conducting its confidential night-time security sweeps at the police ombudsman’s HQ.

Garda sources have strongly rejected the claim, insisting it was the British firm Verrimus that requested the September 26 meeting through a third party and gardaí had no knowledge it was carrying out the security sweep at the GSOC offices at the same time.

Verrimus experts were in Dublin between September 23-27. It was during that time they discovered the first two alleged bugging incidents at GSOC’s offices.