Central Bank urged to probe garda college

The Central Bank will write to the cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week in response to calls for it to investigate a privately held AIB account and the St Raphael’s credit union’s links to the garda college.

The situation emerged as PAC sources confirmed that the group’s latest draft report into the garda college will criticise Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and the Department of Justice for failing to reveal the seriousness of the facility’s financial concerns.

In an 80-plus page letter to the PAC last week, garda college whistleblower and the force’s civilian head of human resources John Barrett called for the Central Bank to investigate both accounts under alleged money laundering legislation.