From: Independent.ie
Provo-controlled ‘mafia’ linked to two Garda deaths
Jim Cusack, Maeve Sheehan and Daniel McConnell
Gardai are facing a nightmare scenario that one of its own members has worked as a mole for the Provisional IRA-controlled ‘mafia’ in the Border area, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
A top-level Garda review is under way into a number of its investigations as concern heightens that evidence in several sensitive cases may have been tampered with.
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Yesterday, Fianna Fail’s border region development spokesman, Brendan Smith, called for a new multi-disciplinary agency to be established to tackle cross-border fuel and cigarette-smuggling and associated criminal activity.