Gilligan fights appointment of receiver

CONVICTED drug dealer John Gilligan has claimed the hearing of receivership proceedings by the Criminal Assets Bureau in relation to his family’s assets should not have gone ahead pending the outcome of an appeal by him before the Supreme Court.

In that Supreme Court appeal, Gilligan is challenging the constitutionality of provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Act, under which CAB operates.

Gilligan, who is serving a 20-year sentence for drug dealing, represented himself yesterday in ongoing proceedings relating to the multi-million euro Jessbrook equestrian centre and a number of houses in the names of members of the Gilligan family which have been found by the court to be the proceeds of crime.