Monk: Fortune from property deals, not crime

ONE of Ireland’s most famous criminals, Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has claimed he did not make his fortune from any involvement in two of the biggest robberies in the history of the State, but from shrewd property investments.

Monk: Fortune from property  deals, not crime

It was put to the Monk in his first-ever television interview last night that he had accumulated his wealth at around the same time as IR£4 million was stolen from a Securicor van at Marino Mart in 1987 and Clonshaugh in 1995.

Later the Belfast High Court found that Stg£75,000 in his Northern Bank account was from the Marino Robbery and gave it back to Securicor.

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