Liverpool City Council's former chief executive Ged Fitzgerald is one of four men to have been charged under Lancashire Police's Operation Sheridan investigation.
Fitzgerald was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation in 2017 when he was the top officer at Liverpool Council. He was subsequently suspended and resigned in 2018.
He was one of a number of men to be arrested as part of Operation Sheridan, an investigation into alleged financial impropriety at the One Connect joint venture between BT and Lancashire Country Council, where Fitzgerald was formerly chief executive.
