CAB shifts focus to middle-ranking criminals

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) seized almost €10 million in assets in 2007 as part of a policy shift towards targeting middle- ranking criminals.

Community organisations welcomed the crackdown on local dealers and called for CAB money to be put back into communities — a call supported by Fine Gael.

The crackdown has accelerated this year, with a massive expansion — from 28 to 80 — in the number of divisional CAB profilers across the country targeting local criminals.