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The Irish people got back almost €4 million worth of dirty money in 2014

The figures, released today, show what the Criminal Assets Bureau seized back from criminal organisations.

THE CRIMINAL ASSETS Bureau (CAB) seized back more than €10 million from criminal proceeds in 2014.

More than €3.8 million was returned to the Exchequer.

In addition, 10 new proceeds of crime were brought before the High Court with freezing orders put on assets with a collective value of €6.76 million.

The report from CAB was today put before the Houses of the Oireachtas by Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald.

Speaking today, she said: “The report highlights the co-ordinated, multi-agency approach to targeting the proceeds of criminal conduct deployed by the Bureau which is widely acknowledged as best practice in this field.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is an essential component in the State’s law enforcement response to serious and organised crime and the government is committed to fully supporting its work.

In the report a number of areas of prominence were highlighted where the Bureau had been particularly effective in recovering the profits of crime.

These included the trafficking and sale of drugs and fuel smuggling.

There was also an increased focus on stopping border crime, with greater co-operation between agencies in the North and South of the country.

There has also been work by gardaí on an EU-wide project focused on developing and extending the reach of forensic accountancy.

In the course of the last year, CAB reclaimed outstanding taxes and interest of €14 million and fraudulantly claimed social welfare of over €190,000.

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    Mute Injustice Cop
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    Sep 9th 2024, 2:10 PM

    In this country, there will be no “justice” for the man murdered by the teen, assuming the teen was driving the stolen car. He’ll get a handful of years, be out in half that time. We are literally relying on perpetrators conscience for justice.

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    Mute rosemary flowers
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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:21 PM

    @Injustice Cop: what conscience? They have none, otherwise they would not be stealing cars, beating up OAP’s, mugging tourists and raping adults and children.

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    Mute eoin fitzpatrick
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    Sep 9th 2024, 1:52 PM

    Don’t think the poor man was on a bike, he was walking

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    Mute Dermot Blaine
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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:37 PM

    Slap on the wrist coming up, if precedent is anything to go by

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    Mute John Mulligan
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    Sep 9th 2024, 9:47 PM

    @Dermot Blaine: and we’re paying his legal fees.
    Isnt it time the whole ‘free’ legal aid racket was reviewed? There’s no such thing as ‘free,’ it just means somebody else is paying. Can the costs not be taken from dole money? Or should nobody be entitled to more than three bites at that cherry? After that, let them have the service of a public defender, a newly qualified lawyer looking for experience. It works well elsewhere.

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    Mute John Moore
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    Sep 10th 2024, 1:49 AM

    I’d like to think it would be something other than 18 months with 6 of it suspended but I won’t hold my breath. A man is dead who was just out walking along. It could have been anyone. By all accounts this ‘teen’ and his gang are real pieces of work who should not be anywhere near the general public.

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