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April 9th, 2006 at 8:06 pm

CPI closed down after legal threat

CPI closed down after legal threat
Siobhan Maguire
THE Centre for Public Inquiry (CPI), the controversial anti-corruption watchdog, has been wound up following threats from a property company to sue the directors if they published a report into its dealings in Dublin’s docklands.

Treasury Holdings, one of the country’s biggest developers, has confirmed that legal letters were sent to the directors of the CPI following a story in The Sunday Times last December revealing that the CPI was investigating a number of transactions in docklands.”

The full Sunday Times report

However, the Centre for Public Enquiry website is still online. While you can, download their reports on Trim Castle - A Monument to Bad Planning? The Proposed Corrib Onshore System - An Independent Analysis, and The Great Corrib Gas Controversy
here
- if only for the stunning photographs of the area in which Shell intend to bring their gas pipeline ashore.

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