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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Gibraltar’s government accused of trying to interfere in corruption inquiry

Fabian Picardo
Fabian Picardo, Gibraltar’s chief minister. A former police commissioner claims he was pressed into early retirement after seeking to execute a search warrant against someone close to Picardo. Photograph: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP

Gibraltar’s government has been accused of political interference as it prepares to pass laws allowing it to halt public inquires, less than a month before an inquiry into alleged corruption at the highest levels of the British overseas territory’s administration is due to begin.

The hearing concerns claims by Gibraltar’s former police commissioner Ian McGrail that he was pressed into early retirement after seeking to execute a search warrant against someone who had a close relationship with Gibraltar’s chief minister, Fabian Picardo.

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