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.

A Dublin man has been convicted of running a Dublin city centre brothel which was targeted in a major An Garda Síochána investigation into organised criminal prostitution called "Quest" set up in 2005.

The woman convicted of allowing a Dublin city centre apartment to be used as a brothel has claimed she owned "the whole escort operation" but denied she would earn up to €2m a year from it.

A jury in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been shown video footage of the garda raid on an alleged brothel call centre in the International Financial Services Centre area of the city in October 2005.

The man accused of running a brothel in Dublin city centre told investigating gardai that he has eight children in Ireland in five different families.

A detective inspector has told how gardaí found a large number of mobile phones in raids in October 2005 on two Dublin city centre premises linked to a brothel operation.

The trial of a man charged with organising and running a brothel near the city centre has continued at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with legal argument in the absence of the jury.