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MINISTER SIMON COVENEY has confirmed that Irish authorities are currently just pursuing one prosecution in relation to the horsemeat scandal.
The suspect company is accused of putting false labels on products.
Speaking to Morning Ireland, the Minister said legal advice has been sought about how to secure the conviction.
“I’ve made it very clear that I want to secure prosecutions but I’m not going to court unless I know I can win,” he continued. “It takes time to put a case together to make sure you win. I can assure you it is not because of a lack of effort. If we can secure a prosecution, we will do that.”
His comments come following the publication of a UK House of Commons report which criticised British and Irish authorities for the “slow pace of investigations” and for failing to acknowledge the extent of the illegal and fraudulent activities by companies.
It said the evidence received from retailers and food processors suggested a “complex, highly organised network of companies trading in and mislabelling frozen and processed meat or meat products in a way that fails to meet specifications and that is fraudulent and illegal”.
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee asked for assurance that prosecutions will be mounted where there is evidence of fraud or other illegal activity.
The criticisms were dismissed by Coveney who said Ireland acted “quickly, swiftly and with absolute priority” when light was first shed on the contamination controversy. He described his Department’s report into the events as tough and hard-hitting.
Roll on 2moro!!!!!! Can’t wait!!
I hope he means ‘metaphorically’ and not ‘literally’.
Would be a lot more useful if these idiots tackled countries such as China, Iran and Burma that restrict free access to the Internet. Suppose it’s not newsworthy though.
They have recently. Iran was hit by op anti sec. Government departments.
So there.
You won’t here about it with mainstream media. Try arstechnica.com or wired.com
can they transfare funds into ecb to bail out italy.since the rest of europ is broke.
I’d prefer if they transferred out of the ECB into Ireland seeing as they’ve screwed us over for the last few years.
and all across the land IT staff plugged out their modems at home just in case, the work ones can wait till after coffee.
Non starter. No-one in Anonymous has any skill beyond SQL injection and DDoS attacks.
They do this to show that big fancy businesses can’t even protect from basic attacks such sql injection or ddos attacks and we’re supposed to trust them with our details.
Just criminals
…as opposed to unjust criminals? I agree!
Can’t wait to see what they do! Fair play to them exposing the flaws in Internet security. It’s the ones that sneak in and say nothing you need to worry about
It’s just someone with an agenda
Spoilists if such a term exists.
Brilliant brilliant minds used for mediocre purposes.
Why don’t you try famine, disease, dictatorships etc etc
Attack them, if you win ……. the world wins
God bless you and help you to make the right decision
Because they don’t have Internet? :-) To be serious, all this hacking is not directed at “who”, it is way more often directed at “viable of doing or not?”. Of course there is extra pride and hype amongst hacker groups if they manage hit something big. But reality is they always look for weak targets and easy points first and then just narrow down more and more to select something attractive. In other words, they hack what they can, not necessarily what they would like to.
Guys… anyone know what a false-flag attack is ?? …9/11 … the government / powers that be are gearing up to shut down the web as we know it… and reboot with a new COMPLETELY CONTROLED & CENSORED Web.. …using security fears / blaming hackers for there actions…
Must Watch >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDwsslGcC4w
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