Gardai secure orders to hold on to Operation Platinum cash
Gardai have been granted orders by the District Court to retain cash recovered during yesterday’s Operation Platinum, set up to target organised crime in the city. The operation involved months of investigation culminating in the massive Garda raids on 150 properties yesterday.
Of the 12 orders applied for at the court, the Gardai were given the right to hold on to cash for three months for ten of the orders. A six week period was granted for one order and another will be reviewed on Monday.
In total €250,000 in Euro, Sterling and US dollars were seized yesterday. The initial amount was thought to be €100,000.
The work of the CAB goes on, and we could be seeing as many as 12 houses being seized in the not too distant future.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
€250,000 cash, €200,000 drugs, 12 x houses @ approx €200,000 = €2.4 mill = in total €2.85 mill ha someone is outta pocket at last. Plus the houses that the computers and paper trail turns up never mind the loss of rent from all these houses. I’d say they wished they all fecked off to Spain a long time ago.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
they will seize nothing and give the money back in my opinion
May 9th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Disagree, Sad. - They’ll give it back only if it can be proven to have been earned legally and tax paid, etc.. Remeber CAB also operates as an arm of Revenue, so like any tax issue, it’s up to the person who has the cash to prove its legitimacy. Smart accountants might try to retrieve some of it, but a lot of these people still claim unemployment and other benefits from the State. A habit that may yet come back to bite them in the arse.
Kind of hard to explain the houses, cars, foreign properties, computers and thousands in banknotes in various currencies lying about the home when you’re on the dole I’d imagine.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
CAB are involved this is about a paper trail to see where the laundered money is. Seizures are inevitable. This is how to hurt them to force their hand and make them feck off out of this country. Plus the regeneration thing needs to know who owns what houses.
May 10th, 2008 at 9:10 am
This type of money is small change to the big guys. Its the equivalent to our loose change jars where we keep our 1c coins.
The Gardai once more have launched a spectacular show of strength, coincidentally at the same time as we get a new taoiseach . John Gilligan is in prison , but i cant think of too many high profile drug barons that are in prison.
The gardai can catch the users who sell to fund their habit , but i could nearly do that myself. Gardai intelligence is an oxymoron
Hope they empty our prisons of the people who put up TV aerials on their houses without planning permission , and get some real criminals behind bars.
Maybe the government should spend less on gardai and try setting up some real treatment centres and effective education systems for the young and disillusioned
May 10th, 2008 at 9:49 am
here here pitchcap well said
May 10th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I agree with Pitchcap, BUT a major law & order clampdown is also part of the solution. We need both a social inclusion and law & order response.
The Gardai have made a good start now we need to keep pressure on our politicians to make sure this continues.
May 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
build more prisons or conscript them into the army. or better still get them on chain gangs to clean the streets or fill potholes.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Suppose 3 houses in weston are taking by the CAB a few meters from the gangs house do u think somebody will be able to live in peace after moving in? no way they will never have peace and the house would be burned and who pay’s for the to be reburfurbished but us tax payers of course,
May 10th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
a one off move for the gaurds but the gangsters are making these move 24/7 its nothing what they got only a spit in the ocean
May 10th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
pitchcap you wreckon we should leave them be then do you?? your one of these guys who has to find fault with everything..but is incapable of being a hands on person aka hurler in the ditch!!everyone knows education and social structures are urgently required but something is been done at last which will seriously disrupt or at least annoy the low life animals who have destroyed this citys name for 9 years…can you not think positively and hope for change??……..remember this TO PROTECT THE SHEEP YOU MUST KILL THE WOLF………
May 10th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
well said to all of ye
May 11th, 2008 at 11:43 am
How did castle Dundon get planning permission to make a castle?
May 11th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Rhebogue Ranter Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
build more prisons or conscript them into the army.
Will you get over your fixation with giving these men uniforms and guns ?