Members of an organised crime gang have been jailed for up to six years and eight months, after plotting to steal up to £57m in rhino horn and Chinese artefacts in a series of museum raids.

More than a dozen members of an organised crime gang are due to be sentenced after plotting to steal rhino horn and Chinese artefacts worth up to €71m in a series of museum raids.

Concern has been raised about Riverdance millionaire Michael Flatley’s security after a gang were able to break into his mansion with apparent ease and steal a rhino horn which could be worth anything between €200,000 and €400,000 on the black market.

A sprawling Irish criminal network has become synonymous with the lucrative trade in stolen rhino horn.

Adam Higginbotham goes on the trail of the Traveller gang behind Europe’s rhino horn theft epidemic.

Five homes and an office were raided yesterday as part of a European-wide operation against a notorious Irish crime network.

Dozens of homes have been raided in an international police investigation into the theft of valuable rhino horns.

Gardaí are tracking down members of a notorious crime gang suspected of stealing eight rhino horns, valued at €500,000, from the National History Museum.

More than 30 members of a notorious Irish Traveller crime network have been arrested in eight countries following a massive Europe- wide investigation.

A notorious Traveller criminal network which dominates a multi-million dollar global trade in stolen rhino horn is being targeted in a huge police operation in the United States.

EUROPEAN police have issued an alert about an Irish organised crime gang involved in the global sale of stolen rhinoceros horns.