Ex RTE chief Dee Forbes was the only person who could have known that Ryan Tubridy’s salary was wrongly declared over the last five years, a bombshell report by Montrose bosses says.
The review into the secret payments to the station’s top paid broadcaster also said there was “no illegality” and claimed that the former Late Late host knew nothing of arrangements to use credit notes in relation to €75,000 a year additonal cash agreed to be paid to him via a deal with a commerical partner.
Interim RTE Deputy Director General Adrian Lynch revealed no member of the station’s Executive Board other than Ms Forbes could have known that Tubridy’s figures were wrongly declared to the Dail and the public. An independent review investigating the secret payments found that the ex Director General was the only person that could have signed off on the presenter’s contracts.
