Official sacked over company expenditure

A British government official in Northern Ireland has been sacked and two more disciplined following an investigation into excessive and unaccounted expenditure of ten of thousands of pounds of public money, it was revealed today.

After a 15 month investigation a report by government auditors slated the lack of financial controls operated by the board of a company set up with tax-payers’ money to promote economic development in the western counties in the North.