Garda warn against dyed bank notes

Dye-stained banknotes stolen during cash-in-transit robberies have been turning up in self-service check-outs, ticket machines and even banks, gardaí have revealed.

Up to €2m taken in raids in recent years could be in circulation, with officers appealing to the public not to accept them as legal tender.

Assistant Garda commissioner Derek Byrne launched a new awareness campaign warning consumers and retailers that a dye-stained note is probably stolen and is being laundered.