The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has almost 1,000 targets who, it believes, are benefiting from the proceeds of crimes including drug trafficking and burglaries.

The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) is conducting 14 investigations in Cork city and county, targeting drug dealers, gangs of burglars, and those involved in organised prostitution.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has sent a file to the DPP in relation to six senior associates of the Kinahan crime cartel for suspected money-laundering offences.

Criminal gangs are showing their ‘flexibility’ by laundering their profits from criminal activity through the horse-racing industry and gyms, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Gardaí have been called in by the HSE to investigate claims of illegal drug use by ambulance personnel.

DETECTIVES are investigating whether the murder of criminal figure Christopher McDonagh is linked to rows he recently had with other criminals.

A man was shot dead after he jumped from the first-floor bedroom of his home just metres from a garda station, detectives said today.

GARDAÍ are investigating if there is a link between the gangland murder of a 29-year-old man at the weekend and the shooting dead of a drug dealer almost a year ago.

Possible links between the murders of two men killed in separate gun attacks were being investigated by detectives in Dublin today.

A Chinese immigrant has told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he paid €500 to a former Garda National Immigration Bureau employee "to thank him" for issuing a fraudulent visa to his girlfriend.

THE gangland murder of a young man in west Dublin may be linked to drug-dealing and was most likely not a revenge killing as has been widely speculated.

By Michael O’Farrell