Leo leak charges ‘unlikely’
A CRIMINAL probe into Tánaiste Leo Varadkar’s leaking of a confidential Government document to a friend is in its concluding stages and a file is expected to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecution ‘within days’, the Irish Mail on Sunday has learned.
It is understood gardaí will recommend that the Tánaiste not be prosecuted because they have found no evidence to support a criminal charge.
A source said: ‘There is insufficient evidence to support a charge and gardaí will potentially recommend no prosecution, though they may also simply outline the facts and leave it for the DPP to decide.’
Mr Varadkar was interviewed under caution by detectives from the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation on April 9 as part of the investigation into why he gave a proposed contract between the Department of Health and the Irish Medical Organisation to Maitiú Ó Tuathail, president of the rival National Association of GPs.
Mr Ó Tuathail was also interviewed and both he and the Tanáiste agreed to surrender their mobile phones to gardaí for examination.
The Tánaiste apologised for his actions in the Dáil last November. ‘There was nothing selfish, corrupt, dishonest or illegal in what I did,’ he said.