IMC report

Main points

Main points

The Provisional IRA planned and carried out the Northern Bank robbery of December 20th.

Senior Sinn Féin members gave the go-ahead for the £26.5 million (37.85 million) robbery.

The IRA also sanctioned three other significant robberies in Belfast and Co Tyrone involving abductions.

Financial sanctions should be levied against Sinn Féin's Assembly salaries and allowances.

Had the Assembly been sitting, then powers of exclusion would have been considered.

Sinn Féin has to decide between support for democratic politics and association with, and backing for, the IRA.

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