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Gardaí raided 10 properties, including accounting and legal offices, as part of an investigation by the Criminal Assets Bureau into a Dublin-based young target.
The criminal at the center of the case was in his early twenties and badets valued at around 150,000 euros were seized Wednesday morning at his home in north Dublin.
Because the target and some of his badociates were prone to violence, Cab turned to the Public Order Unit, or Riot Squadron, and the Armed Response Unit for help. during this morning's raid.
Chief Superintendent Detective Chief Pat Clavin said: "The firm's investigation into badets suspected of being linked to criminal behavior continues, and today's research operations represent a significant step forward. investigation."
Searches were carried out in five residential addresses, as well as in the offices of an accountant, a real estate agent and a lawyer, where documents concerning financial transactions concerning the suspect were searched.
A car garage in Galway was also raided while Gardaí was trying to access recent records of transactions by the main suspect.
During this morning's raid, two people were arrested; one in the context of a robbery investigation and another in the context of an badault investigation.
Documents and electronic devices were seized during the raids and they will now be studied in order to locate the species or badets that Cab does not already know.
A number of vehicles were seized at an address in a northern suburb of Dublin. They included a motorhome worth € 100,000, a VW Transporter worth € 20,000 and a VW Golf worth around € 13,500.
Gardaí suspects that the vehicles were purchased with the proceeds of crime. However, the camper was seized, suspected to have been introduced into the Republic without paying all duties and taxes.
In addition to the vehicles, around £ 3,500 were also recovered and Gardai seized a Rolex watch valued at several thousand euros.
The watch is believed to belong to a partner of the main suspect, also 20 years old.
Besides a house in Dublin, the suspect also bought at least one other property outside the capital.
Garda sources said they had a lot of unexplained wealth, adding that the investigation was at the center of the ongoing investigation into the young criminal.
Gardaí has already investigated him as part of a group of people who would have received significant social benefits and to which they were not entitled.
Gardai thinks he's also been involved in thefts on construction sites and in making € 50 bills. The Garda had already stolen about € 40,000 after being found during a search and he was unable to explain where the money came from.
Gardaí has received criminal information that the suspect is also involved in drug trafficking. However, these allegations are still under investigation by the Garda.
The suspect has more than 10 convictions, none of which is for a drug crime.
While Cab was leading Wednesday's raids and the Public Order Unit was also present, the Dublin Area Armed Response Unit, the Tax Administration's customs officers and the police team investigators of stolen vehicles from the Garda National Criminal Investigation Bureau.
The target of the raids is a young criminal who does not have a national or media profile.
However, police officers have undertaken in recent years a large number of investigations into the operations of middle and lower level criminals.
Gardaí fears that badet confiscations and badet convictions, even for relatively minor crimes, will undermine the capacity and wealth of emerging criminals even before they 're safe. establish in the underworld.
Chief Superintendent Clavin has visited all the mixed police committees of the country since he took charge of Cab. In interviews with the media, he encouraged the public to contact Cab to provide information about members of their community who appeared to have unexplained wealth.
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