Regulator faults Liberty Recycling trustees over delayed response to concerns
A trustee of Liberty Recycling also worked as an assistant to the charity’s chief executive and served as its treasurer, raising questions about her independence. The Charities Regulator criticised the trustees for failing to respond urgently to serious concerns and for remaining supportive of senior employees when it said they should have considered suspending them.
The charity is at the centre of a criminal money-laundering probe, though there is no suggestion the trustees were involved in suspected criminal activity. The regulator said it had twice failed to reach trustees by phone on 20 October, as Gardaí searched the charity’s headquarters and the chief executive’s home; it petitioned the High Court to appoint liquidators. A 2024 law prohibits a majority of trustees from being connected relatives, a rule the article says applied at Liberty from early October.
In short
- A Liberty Recycling trustee also worked for its chief executive.
- The regulator criticised trustees’ response to serious concerns.
- The charity is being wound up amid a criminal probe.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “One trustee at Liberty Recycling, whose job it was to keep the charity honest, was employed by the now liquidated charity in a role that made her directly answerable to the CEO… as Charity Regulator lays bare their inaction”.