Four former Fianna Fáil politicians and a Gibraltar-based businessman tonight appeared in court in connection with a multimillion-euro land deal alleged to be corrupt.

Businessman Jim Kennedy was taken to hospital today after being arrested for questioning about bribery and corruption allegations.

AN ASSISTANT Garda commissioner is to be appointed to head policing in the southern region as part of a reshuffle of senior garda personnel.

A DOWNTURN in the economy will result in an increase in incidents of fraudulent activity, which could cost Irish businesses millions of euro.

PLANNERS and policy makers must become more open to high-rise developments if we are to deliver a sustainable transport network and make urban living sustainable, the Irish Institute of Chartered Surveyors was told yesterday.

Fresh strategies to tackle the surge in Tiger kidnappings are to be mapped out in talks to be held today.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau is to get a new chief, replacing Felix McKenna who is set to retire in two week’s time.

GARDA sources have confirmed that a break-in took place at the home of Chief Superintendent Felix McKenna, head of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).

Public trust in the British government has been weakened by Northern Ireland Security Minister Shaun Woodward distancing the IRA from organised crime, it was claimed today.

SUSPECTS targeted by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) coughed up over €16 million in taxes and interest on undeclared income last year.

IT wasn’t exactly a steal for the buyers but the auction of Martin Cahill’s former home didn’t represent daylight robbery by the sellers either.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) is to set up a special investigation unit to target wealthy property developers who bribed politicians and public officials.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) took almost €10 million from criminals in tax demands last year, new figures show.

Dirty money seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau must be used to rebuild communities devastated by crime, it was urged today.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) is set to move on the homes of the wife and the lover of dead crime boss Martin Cahill.

LEGAL representatives for foreign crime bosses whose assets were frozen here are understood to be considering revisiting their cases following a Supreme Court judgment.

AN INVESTIGATION into Britain’s richest underworld figures has found that the richest drug dealer and smuggler are Irish.

GEORGE REDMOND, who will spend the next year behind bars for accepting a bribe, faces two more corruption charges at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court next year.

THE country’s top crime bosses are setting up sham backstreet garages to launder the proceeds of crime and drug trafficking.

THE man dubbed the Elliot Ness of Irish crime-fighting has retired as chief legal adviser to the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).

A CRIMINAL’S house auctioned by the Criminal Assets Bureau this week fetched almost 100,000 euro more than the guide price, it emerged yesterday.

THE State chalked down another notable success in its crackdown on drug barons yesterday when two luxurious homes owned by one of the world’s biggest cocaine traffickers were put up for auction.

The North is to have its own version of the Criminal Assets Bureau, under legislation which will establish a counterpart to the investigative body throughout the UK.