Former Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson is no longer under investigation by Lancashire Police it has been confirmed.
Anderson was interviewed under caution four years ago during a probe into alleged financial impropriety.
Operation Sheridan investigated a £5m tender awarded to One Connect Ltd, a joint venture between Lancashire County Council and BT.
The investigation, which was launched in 2013, related to allegations of financial irregularities over the tendering of the One Connect contract, which included running the council’s fleet of vehicles.
In 2017 Liverpool City Council’s then chief executive, Ged Fitzgerald, was arrested in connection with the same probe.
Fitzgerald, who resigned the following year, was questioned along with the former boss of Liverpool Council’s BT joint venture, David McElhinney, ex city finance chief Phil Halsall, and former Lancashire County Council leader Geoff Driver.
They all denied any wrongdoing.
Lancashire Police said the force had “written to four men to tell them they are no longer under investigation as part of Operation Sheridan. The four, aged 64, 68, 66 and 62, were contacted last month and told they would face no further action.
On completion of the investigation, we referred the matter to the Crown Prosecution Service who are currently considering potential offences in relation to four other individuals.”
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