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Auditor General has bail extended

Lawyer Saul Froomkin chats with his client, Bermuda's Auditor General, Larry Dennis after a meeting with detectives at Hamilton Poilce Station yesterday. Mr. Dennis was interviewed in relation to the disappearance of Police documents on the probe into the Bermuda Housing Corporation corruption investigation.

Auditor General Larry Dennis was interviewed again by Police yesterday in connection with their probe into missing Police documents relating to the Bermuda Housing Corporation corruption investigation.

Mr. Dennis had his Police bail extended and will return to Hamilton Police Station on October 12. He refused to comment about the matter yesterday.

He was arrested in June for alleged possession of stolen documents and not revealing his source but was released uncharged after officers had raided both his home and office.

Media reports based on the missing documents had claimed Premier Ewart Brown and members of the Government had been investigated over alleged corruption at the Bermuda Housing Corporation (BHC).

Sources later claimed Mr. Dennis had been authorised by former Police Commissioner Jonathan Smith to hold those documents and that a member of the Auditor General's staff worked side-by-side with Police for most of the inquiry in what was labelled as the largest ever investigation into the disappearance of public funds.

Two other men were also arrested in the early stages of the Police probe into the missing BHC documents but neither were charged.

Mr. Dennis — who heads the Government's fiscal watchdog — has continually called for more legislative protection for whistleblowers as he has hit out at the number of frauds and misappropriations that were detected in recent years in Government entities.

In the legal wrangle over the media's publication of the file's contents, Chief Justice Richard Ground said it was unclear whether the documents had been stolen or whether they had simply been copied and distributed to the media.

In October the Privy Council will decide whether to uphold or overturn a press gag preventing further revelations from the files.