Bag with €300k seized as Customs reveal criminal gangs are stashing money in foreign-bound trucks

Hiding cash on their wives’ bodies and concocting incredible, and often multiple, claims about the origins of the money are among the tactics used by people smuggling proceeds of crime out of the country.

A Meath man has had more than €49,000 seized from him after a court rejected his claim that the cash was the winnings of a horse racing syndicate.

The elderly wife of a deceased Dublin businessman has had €20,000 seized by the State because it was the proceeds of tax evasion involving undeclared jewellery imported into the country.