The luxury home of a loyalist paramilitary leader seized by the Assets Recovery Agency was tonight sold at an auction for £410,000 (€585,280).

A police chief has been ordered to make a £1,500 (€2,143) payout to a top loyalist paramilitary in Northern Ireland, it emerged tonight.

A luxury house where a loyalist paramilitary leader was murdered is being auctioned off today.

Luxury homes and cars have been seized in an offensive against a family running an alleged international smuggling operation, it emerged today.

BRITAIN’S anti-racketeering agency said yesterday it had successfully seized assets valued at €1.9 million from the estate of a Northern paramilitary godfather killed in an underworld feud.

More than £1m (€1.5m) profit from drug dealing and terrorism seized from a murdered loyalist paramilitary godfather is to be used to tackle crime following a landmark ruling in Belfast High Court today.

A COLLECTION of art and a €180,000 luxury yacht have been examined as part of a new crackdown on multi-million euro racketeering in the North.

Crimefighters in Northern Ireland have frozen more than £1.5m (€2.1m) worth of cash and property belonging to a murdered loyalist paramilitary boss, it emerged today

Three people have been arrested after police discovered a bomb and bullets at the home of a murdered paramilitary leader in Co Down.

Police in the North are continuing to question a man arrested last night over the murder of a senior loyalist earlier in the month.

A man was being questioned today about the murder of a paramilitary chief which ignited a new feud among rival loyalists in Northern Ireland.

A man was being questioned today about the murder of a paramilitary boss that has ignited a new feud among rival loyalists in Northern Ireland.

A man was critically injured during overnight clashes between feuding loyalists in Belfast in which shots were fired.

A MAN shot dead outside his home near Belfast may have been ambushed by former paramilitary associates, it emerged yesterday.

A man shot dead outside his home near Belfast may have been ambushed by former paramilitary associates, it emerged today.