Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts

10:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

Generally they have not told us. The cases I am more comfortable discussing are the three cases which were prosecuted. The criminal prosecutions are a matter of public record. In those cases money was lodged offshore in other havens. In criminal investigations we must get approval from the courts for search warrants to search businesses and sometimes private residences. In these cases we came across evidence of the movement of money. The example I can give is not exactly accurate because-----