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Recently I was called into a meeting by my employer to be told that I had been subject of an internal investigation following a complaint received from outside the company. It turns out that an employee of a local council had called to complain about me, saying that I was involved in a particular criminal activity (computer hacking of their systems), this leading to my company investigating me. Whilst they found nothing themself (which they wouldn't) they said that no action would be taken unless any charges, or an arrest was made. Obviously this draws a question over my integrity with my employer. Seemingly the only reason I was not suspended immediately was due to the fact that I do not have access to customer account systems.
I know that I am not guilty of any of this and contacted the police to offer my help, who knew nothing. I am politically involved, and requested a meeting with some of the local councillors to discuss a potential security issue with their computer systems and customer data - given what I had been told. They got back to me to confirm that there had been no breach, and no hacking had taken place at all. The assumption is that this was a malicious response to a complaint made regarding a breach of DPA made about this employee last year.
I then made a dpa request to my employer for a copy of my personnel records relating to this information, and have all details relating to this complaint, and the allegations made, which they duly supplied.
Is there anything that would prevent me now using this as evidence in a complaint to clear my name? Technically this is defamation - actually, as the person was aware the allegation was untrue it could be classed as 'criminal defamation', though I ideally am after an unreserved apology for me and my employer only at this point.

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