The family of a murdered drug dealer has agreed to pay back £750,000 (€1m) of his ill-gotten gains, it was revealed today.

An alleged drug trafficker’s property empire and luxury cars worth nearly £3m (€4.3m) have been frozen by crimefighters in Belfast, it was revealed tonight.

Crimefighters have frozen homes, businesses and boats in a Co Down coast village as part of a crackdown on a fish quota scam, they revealed today.

A man alleged to have laundered money earned through suspected fuel smuggling has had assets of more than £400,000 (€589,000) frozen by the Assets Recovery Agency, it was announced today.