ODCE could have greater role in investigating white-collar crime Joint committee recommends letting forensic accountants sit in on Garda interviews
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Forensic accountants and other experts could sit in on Garda interviews during white-collar crime investigations, if recommendations from an Oireachtas committee become law.
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment is recommending that the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018 be changed to allow forensic accountants and other experts to sit in on Garda interviews during white-collar crime investigations.
Legislation
“The committee believes this should be included in the current legislation as the precedent exists for other bodies,” its report on pre-legislative scrutiny of the new law states.
ODCE wants Garda powers for white collar crime probes
Updated / Friday, 22 Jan 2021
18:23
The ODCE s Director of Corporate Enforcement Ian Drennan said that under the current custody regulations, only Gardaí have the power to interview persons arrested for questioning.
Industry and Employment Correspondent
Staff of the planned Corporate Enforcement Agency to tackle white collar crime would be more effective if they had Garda powers to interview suspects, and to carry out off-site searches of electronic data held in accounts in the cloud, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise Trade and Employment heard today.
The committee was commencing pre-legislative scrutiny of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018, which will replace the current Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement with a new Corporate Enforcement Authority.