Bus workers’ credit union draw referred to the Gardaí

A Central Bank review of prize draws at credit unions published in March was heavily critical of a number of practices around how they were run

A CIE staff credit union has referred an incident involving its prize draw to the Gardaí and the Central Bank, it confirmed to The Sunday Business Post.

“The credit union took all appropriate steps to deal with this issue swiftly and immediately informed the relevant authorities – the Central Bank and An Garda Siochána,” chief executive Louise Kennedy of the Citybus Employees Credit Union said.

“As this matter is currently under investigation, we ...