Liverpool Council decided to delay suspending a regeneration boss due to an ongoing criminal investigation.
A judgement handed down when former regeneration boss Nick Kavanagh lost his unfair dismissal case against the council revealed the council delayed suspending him and acting on an internal report due to the involvement of Merseyside Police.
Mr Kavanagh, the long serving director of regeneration at the city council, was arrested at the Cunard Building by Merseyside Police as part of the force's Operation Aloft in December 2019. He was subsequently suspended from his chief officer job and was eventually dismissed in March 2021 following a council disciplinary hearing. He denies any wrongdoing and has not been charged with an offence.
