Mr Sugarman has been unable to find work since - even elsewhere in Europe.
"What I find absolutely incredulous is that my life has been utterly destroyed simply because I did the right thing," he told the committee, which is investigating the banking sector.
"People who didn't adhere to the regulations got off absolutely scot-free.
Despite walking into a Garda station in Rathmines, Dublin, eight years ago to report alleged offences under the Central Bank Act, he said he has never heard anything back after being told the complaint was passed to the fraud squad.
Mr Sugarman told the Oireachtas Finance Committee it was the "harsh fact of the matter that official Ireland has absolutely and completely destroyed the lives of every single whistle-blower" regardless of which organ of the state was exposed.
Despite walking into a Garda station in Rathmines, Dublin, eight years ago to report alleged offences under the Central Bank Act, he said he has never heard anything back after being told the complaint was passed to the fraud squad.
Mr Sugarman told the Oireachtas Finance Committee it was the "harsh fact of the matter that official Ireland has absolutely and completely destroyed the lives of every single whistle-blower" regardless of which organ of the state was exposed.
Following these discontinuations, the European Court of Human Rights decided in O’Keeffe v. Ireland (App. No. 35810/09; Judgment, 28th January, 2014) that Ireland was (it still is) in breach of its obligations under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights for failing to provide an effective domestic remedy against the State as regards the State’s failure to protect Ms O’Keeffe.
Mr Sugarman has been unable to find work since - even elsewhere in Europe.
ReplyDelete"What I find absolutely incredulous is that my life has been utterly destroyed simply because I did the right thing," he told the committee, which is investigating the banking sector.
"People who didn't adhere to the regulations got off absolutely scot-free.
Despite walking into a Garda station in Rathmines, Dublin, eight years ago to report alleged offences under the Central Bank Act, he said he has never heard anything back after being told the complaint was passed to the fraud squad.
ReplyDeleteMr Sugarman told the Oireachtas Finance Committee it was the "harsh fact of the matter that official Ireland has absolutely and completely destroyed the lives of every single whistle-blower" regardless of which organ of the state was exposed.
Despite walking into a Garda station in Rathmines, Dublin, eight years ago to report alleged offences under the Central Bank Act, he said he has never heard anything back after being told the complaint was passed to the fraud squad.
ReplyDeleteMr Sugarman told the Oireachtas Finance Committee it was the "harsh fact of the matter that official Ireland has absolutely and completely destroyed the lives of every single whistle-blower" regardless of which organ of the state was exposed.
Following these discontinuations, the European Court of Human Rights decided in O’Keeffe v. Ireland (App. No. 35810/09; Judgment, 28th January, 2014) that Ireland was (it still is) in breach of its obligations under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights for failing to provide an effective domestic remedy against the State as regards the State’s failure to protect Ms O’Keeffe.
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