Now, you’re probably asking “so what’s all the fuss about?” And you’d be right if you did; the charges are nothing much...what? $1,500 in suspect receipts for gas? When there’s been over a quarter million dollars in under-deposits in just four months of 2009? In fact, what about that practice of under-deposits? Nobody was charged for anything even remotely related to that!
Well the DPP this evening told us that these charges are, quote, “just the tip of the iceberg.” he said that police are continuing to investigate and these are just charges for things they, quote “bumped into along the way...and are not the be-all and end-all of the investigation.” She says that the priority of the investigation is not a breach in regulation but they mean to find out, quote “where the money went and who’s responsible.”
She says that investigators were misled and diverted by bogus receipts and that’s what today’s charges arose out of. But overall she stressed that the investigation will continue and more charges are expected to follow. She gave no timeline.
