A court has ordered a brothel keeper whose prostitution operation took in up to €4m a year to forfeit over €252,000 in assets.

The State has indicated an intention to make an application to confiscate the assets of a convicted brothel-keeper.

An application by the State to confiscate the assets of a jailed brothel-keeper has opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin man jailed for three years and fined €24,000 last March for running a city centre brothel operation faces a possible application at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for confiscation of his assets.

A Dublin man who ran a city centre brothel operation which was targeted in a garda investigation into organised criminal prostitution called "Quest" has been jailed for three years and fined €24,000.