COUNCIL WORKERS ARRESTED; EXCLUSIVE.Byline: KEVIN McDONNELL SEVERAL workers at a council's rubbish dump have been arrested in a major fraud investigation. Some employees from Down District Council were taken into police custody yesterday afternoon while scores of PSNI PSNI Police Service of Northern Ireland (UK) PSNI Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland PSNI Professional Systems Network, Inc. officers raided the council's Strangford Road headquarters. They were questioned on suspicion of obtaining services by deception. Council chief executive John McGrillen revealed he had been aware of the police investigation for some time but he refused to give details on the nature of the inquiry. He said: "I can confirm that members of staff are helping the police with its investigation." It is believed the arrests may have been made in connection with the alleged unauthorised use of the council-run Drumanakelly Landfill site landfill site n → vertedero landfill site n → centre m d'enfouissement des déchets landfill site land n . Mr McGrillen would not deny that a member of the council's waste management team was among those arrested. There has been an ongoing problem with illegal dumping at the massive landfill site. A South Down Assembly member said it was important that legal proceedings All actions that are authorized or sanctioned by law and instituted in a court or a tribunal for the acquisition of rights or the enforcement of remedies. were allowed to run their course. The DUP's Jim Wells said: "This is a cause of great concern." |
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