Foreign crime bosses hit by CAB

Mickey Greene: On July 16, 2002, the High Court granted CAB permission to sell two luxurious properties owned by Greene in Ireland.

The English-born 60-year-old is considered to be one of the world's biggest cocaine dealers.

His mansion, Maple Falls, at Pitchfortstown, Co Meath, included a stables, tennis courts and an indoor swimming pool, and is valued at around 1.5m euro.

His penthouse apartment in Dublin's exclusive International Financial Services Centre, containing an 8,000 music system and a 20,000 kitchen, is valued at 1m euro.

Greene is currently living in the south of Spain.

David Huck.

Huck, an international cannabis trafficker, bought a beautiful site overlooking Lough Derg in Co Clare in the early 1990s.

CAB seized the four-acre site and played a neat hand when auctioning it last April.

CAB were looking for 95,000 euro, but the highest bid was 80,000 euro.

CAB bosses took a gamble and withdrew it from the market, sparking off a bidding war, which resulted in the site finally going for 150,000 euro.

The sale was to satisfy a tax debt owed by Huck.

A house near the site also owned by Huck is the subject of a CAB court order and will be sold later.

Huck was sentenced to 14 years in prison in Britain in 1997 for drug importation.

Jan Hendrik Ijpelaar.

The Dutch drug baron's mansion in Co Kerry was seized by CAB in August, 2000 after the High Court granted a confiscation order.

The pad, outside Sneem, boasted a swimming pool, tennis courts, its own jetty and a small island.

CAB got 1.14m euro for it.

Other criminals targeted include English crime boss Johnny Morissey and Scottish drug barons Thomas McGraw, Lindsay Craft and James and Robina Alexander.