Darknet evidence to feature in gangland cases

Gardaí are to use evidence seized from the darknet in forthcoming high-profile prosecutions against organised crime groups.

Irish criminal gangs are increasingly using digital currencies like bitcoins to accumulate wealth and to buy assets and are hiring experts to assist them, gardaí told the Irish Examiner.

Senior members of the Kinahan cartel were arrested in Amsterdam last November during operations in which a bitcoin computer was seized inside a heavily fortified apartment.