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Suspect held in swoop on huge money-laundering ring
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Belfast Telegraph
September 27, 2006 Wednesday
Suspect held in swoop on huge money-laundering ring
One man was arrested yesterday as part of an investigation into a huge laundering ring on both sides of the border. The investigation centres on the activities of a leading criminal who lives in south County Dublin, close to the Wicklow border, and his associates. He is believed to be a native of the North, with links to the drugs trade across Ireland and the UK.
Yesterday's raids in Wicklow, Dublin, the North and Britain were aimed at breaking up a high-level insurance and mortgage fraud that has allegedly been built up using the proceeds of this drugs trade and money laundering. It is believed the mortgage fraud may involve up to 500 houses. Gardai from the Criminal Assets Bureau, the PSNI and British police were involved in searches which targeted private homes and business premises. Documents were seized during up to 10 raids in Wicklow and Dublin. Properties in Ballymena and Lisburn, Co Antrim, and Bangor in Co Down were also examined. A PSNI spokesperson said: "This is part of a protracted investigation which has been ongoing for several months." PSNI financial investigators, the Garda, the Criminal Assets Bureau and the Serious Organised Crime Agency were all involved, and detectives in Cumbria and officers from the drug enforcement agency in Scotland also took part. Around 10 raids were carried out in south County Dublin as officers from the Criminal Assets Bureau moved in. Homes, businesses and warehouses were searched early yesterday morning. A source in the CAB said: "The Bureau is conducting a series of searches in relation to criminal conduct of an individual in south Co Dublin and its associates." The crackdown, called Operation Cannon, was led by gardai but co-ordinated by the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which was established this year to target some of the estimated ?1bn being lost to economic criminals throughout Britain every year. The raids here were carried out under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Garda identified more than 20 premises that were to be raided as part of the massive investigation, including homes in Co Wicklow. A garda spokesman stated: "A number of places have been searched and are still to be searched here in the Republic, in south County Dublin and in Wicklow." The investigation in England has centred on Barrow-on-Furness in Cumbria.
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