Proceeds of crime yield €5.1m from CAB operations

THE Criminal Assets Bureau collected €5.1 million in proceeds of crime last year and paid more than €1.4m to the Minister for Finance, according to new figures.

The statistics revealed in the Garda Síochána Annual Report, published yesterday, also show that 365,000 tablets of the first head shop drug to be banned, BZP, were seized in the nine months after it became a controlled substance last year.

The report shows that last year CAB began 18 new cases before the High Court under the Proceeds of Crime Act and trained a further 24 gardaí as Divisional Assets Profilers.