A top republican questioned about the £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery is to lodge an official complaint with the Police Ombudsman's Office after being released without charge, it emerged tonight.
Ex-IRA prisoner Brian Arthurs (40) from Dungannon, Co Tyrone, one of five men detained by detectives, was the second to be freed.
One man was charged today with the robbery and another two are still being held.
Mr Arthurs, whose brother Declan (21) was among a group of IRA men shot dead by the SAS in Northern Ireland 18 years ago, said he plans to lodge his complaint with the Ombudsman, Nuala O'Loan.
Under the terms of the Belfast Agreement he was released in 2000 from the Maze Prison where he had been serving a 25-year jail sentence on explosives charges.
He said tonight: "This has been terrible ordeal for my family. I deny any involvement in the Northern Bank raid.
"Over the last six months, my name has begun appearing in various newspapers, claiming I am a senior IRA man, even a member of the army council and the link man with General de Chastelain on decommissioning. All nonsense.
"I regard this as a process of police victimisation through the media."
PA