CAB ‘can proceed’ on Meehan accounts

THE High Court yesterday paved the way for the Criminal Assets Bureau to apply to take over €800,000 Brian Meehan — the only man serving a sentence for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin — has in an Austrian bank.

The President of the High Court Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan yesterday said he was satisfied that the existence of an order of the Austrian Court in relation to the money does not present a bar to CAB proceeding in the matter.

It is now open to CAB to apply to the court for a final disposal order in relation to the money held by Meehan and his father Kevin in a number of bank accounts in Vienna.