{"id":529403,"date":"2026-07-02T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529403\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:18:12","slug":"man-released-without-charge-after-arrest-on-suspicion-of-bribing-public-official-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529403\/","title":{"rendered":"Man released without charge after arrest on suspicion of bribing public official \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has been released without charge after being questioned by garda\u00ed as part of an investigation into the alleged bribery of a public official. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man (40s) was arrested last Monday and held for questioning at a garda station in the southern region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda sources confirmed the investigation was in respect of the local authority in Limerick which, before 2014, was two separate councils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda statement issued on Wednesday stated that detectives from the National Economic Crime Bureau had arrested a man \u201con suspicion of bribing a public official\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe investigation relates to alleged Corruption in Office involving a former local authority employee and external contractors,\u201d the force said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The suspect was detained for questioning under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In an update on Thursday, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said the suspect had been released without charge and a file would be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions as part of the ongoing investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Limerick City and County Council did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been released without charge after being questioned by garda\u00ed as part of an investigation into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,82653,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-529403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-garda-national-economic-crime-bureau","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}