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THE CRIMINAL ASSETS Bureau (Cab) has frozen bank accounts containing over €260,000 as part of two separate investigations today.
The first investigation relates to contact made to Cab yesterday by a US federal agency investigating a company involved in the illegal manufacture of drugs, contrary to US law.
The US agency had identified an Irish bank account that was being used to receive funds as part of this crime which was then forwarded to a bank account in another country.
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An investigation was launched by Cab in cooperation with US authorities, and approximately €150,000 was subsequently frozen in an Irish bank account.
The second investigation is part of Cab’s contribution to Operation Thor, which targets organised crime groups involved in burglaries and thefts across the country.
Today’s activity is a follow on from an operation on 29 October which saw a BMW, rolex watches, designer clothes and cash seized.
Cab’s investigation identified an additional bank account belonging to this particular organised crime group and action taken today has seen a further €110,000 frozen. The total amount frozen related to this investigation now stands at €358,000.
Today’s operation is seen as another significant development in the investigation into the assets of this organised crime group.
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@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: A likely 1 hour time limit, asking bar staff to use a toilet, no standing near the bar, Table service only, no live/background music, no smoking areas likely for smokers, no sitting too close to any friends and above all no craic. Enjoy your pint? Yeah.
@Gavin Mckenna: that won’t be the case when all the pubs fully open, the 2m rule will be gone and it will be business as usual. They will announce that fairly soon.
While theatres are closed and mass gatherings for events are banned then the country is not fully re-open. Some peoples jobs are still gone as a result of these measures and they won’t be back working in July so there should be some recognition of that.
@Dara O’Brien: Presumably if you have a job that you can’t do from home and you go on a holiday and then need to self isolate for 2 weeks upon returning then it might not be possible?
@Dara O’Brien: because another two weeks would need to be taken after the break to take the quarantine. Doubt if an employer would pay for that and wouldn’t expect them too.
@Bren: Yes. So what’s your point? Restrictions are being lifted. They have to be for all sorts of reasonsRead the article. Or do you want to use ‘the virus’ as an excuse to put life on hold forever?
@Bren: and it was not that long ago that people wanted to ban flights from Italy… and back then there were less cases and transmissions then there are currently in Italy as the virus was only starting (239 new cases 29th Feb and and 283 new cases on the 9th June).. and the same for Spain which had 26 new cases on the 1st March and 314 on the 10th June
- I really cannot understand the demands to close on bound travel back then and the desire to allow Irish people travel to these countries now. It should be stressed that statistically people are more likely to pick up the virus now in Italy then back in February.. and maybe this is the reason to request self isolation for all inbound travellers including Irish heading away for two weeks in the sun.
I am unsure of what is best but hoildaying in Ireland seem the best option (if it were not for the rain and wind and cold seas) for keeping low virus numbers in Ireland.
@Liz O’Neill: of course you can take your holidays – just do not travel to SARS-Cov-2 infected countries but rather stay in Ireland (Sorry about the weather)
I just did some checking and there are more transmissions of the virus now in Spain and Italy then there were back in Feb 2020 – so we cannot throw caution to the wind, even though I would like to see international travel opened up again – but only when safe.
@james r: i havent come across anyone that had this virus so your right and it was certainly not worth destroying the livelihoods of millions of people not to mention whole hospital departments. End this lockdown before more people are forced into irreversible poverty
@james r: survival rate ??? Oh that must be the flu you are talking about.. or are you including those who were never infected in the survival rate again!
At time of writing 7,497,048 have been confirmed infected by testing, 419,811 have died and 3,805,726 have recovered. Most phone and computers come with a calculator – do the maths.
Only some person who thinks that you include people not infected as surviving – one can, using that logic, say that everyone alive has survived a heart attack and cancer and those born pre 1975 all survived the Vietnam war. Oh look I survived a shark attack – as I was never attacked by a shark – I hope you are understanding!
@Kevin: They are including people never infected as surviving – I call them the bee stink and shark attack survivors – and I am glad you survived the bee sting and shark attack – it is great to survive a shark attack that never happened
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: if you were told that over 25,000 people all across ireland were attacked by sharks in the last 6 months but yet you knew nobody who were attacked and despite asking all your friends if they knew anyone but who did then you would question the validity of these statistics like a rational thinking person
I must say , the Government have ,for the majority, handled the whole lockdown very well. Roll on lifting the measures and some normality back to everyone lives , but only when safe to do so…
@Brad*: I’ve been in the United States throughout all of this. The contrast between irish and American politicians has been stark. There will always be naysayers, but they’ve done a fantastic job here.
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