Drug dealer's seized homes up for sale

Two homes seized from an on-the-run international drugs dealer by the Criminal Assets Bureau are to be put on the market next month - at an asking price of more than €2.5m.

The properties are owned by 60-year-old Mickey Green, said by British police sources to be one of the world’s biggest cocaine traffickers, who fled Ireland following a fatal traffic accident and now lives in Spain.

The Criminal Assets Bureau will sell Green’s house, on a country estate in County Kildare, and penthouse apartment in Dublin - at public auction next month.

The rural home, set in four acres near the village of Kilcock, has an indoor swimming pool and sauna and an elaborate security system.

In the grounds there is a lake and a greenhouse that has been converted to a bar, as well as stables, a double garage and tennis courts.

The sixth-floor penthouse is in Dublin’s exclusive International Financial Services Centre apartments development close to the River Liffey, and contains a €20,000 kitchen and a €8,000 stereo system and luxury furniture, together with two car parking spaces, each worth €20,000.

The expectation is that the apartment will be sold for as much €1m and the house for €1.5m.

Auctioneer John Gillespey, who is handling the sale of the properties, said: ‘‘We are acting under instructions as sales agents.’’

Green, who has served jail sentences in Britain and Ireland, is still wanted by the police in both countries and has previously been deported from the US.

He moved to Ireland from Britain in 1993 and left after a road accident in which a taxi driver died.

The CAB - established by the Government to seize the assets of known criminals - was granted an order to sell Green’s properties earlier this week.