Car worth €140k seized in raids targeting crime gangs

A Range Rover worth an estimated €140,000 was one of 21 vehicles seized in a massive operation targeting organised crime and the bogus motor trade.

The Criminal Assets Bureau, backed up by elite armed units, seized €65,000 in cash and 12 high-value watches and froze some €312,000 in bank accounts.

A total of 20 searches were conducted in an operation targeting two or three gangs, including one of Dublin’s biggest drug trafficking outfits, led by two notorious Clondalkin brothers.