Man caught laundering €1.5m in tumble dryer jailed for three years

The uncovering of a cash laundering operation in which almost €1.5 million in cash was being dug out of a field and cleaned in a tumble drier resulted in a Limerick man being jailed for three years yesterday.

The money found during a Garda raid on a farm in Limerick in April 2013 was the biggest discovery of cash belonging to criminals in the history of the State. Limerick Circuit Court heard the scene of the laundering operation, a field in Portcrusha, Montpelier, Co Limerick, was “awash with money”.

John Duffy, aged 55, who once worked as a chauffeur and ran a car valeting business in Limerick, pleaded guilty to laundering the money, knowing it to be the proceeds of crime.