Court freezes assets of alleged loyalist racketeer

The High Court in the North has frozen £400,000 (€590,000)worth of assets belonging to an alleged loyalist racketeer from Kells in Co Antrim.

Court freezes assets of alleged loyalist racketeer

The High Court in the North has frozen £400,000 (€590,000)worth of assets belonging to an alleged loyalist racketeer from Kells in Co Antrim.

The court agreed to the move after being told by the Assets Recovery Agency that Melville Matthews was involved in loan-sharking, extortion and other illegal activities associated with loyalist paramilitarism.

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