Gilligan loses €500,000 to British authorities
Drug trafficker John Gilligan has been forced to hand over nearly €500,000 to British authorities.
The UK’s Revenue and Customs seized IR£296,000 hidden in a suitcase as the 55-year-old boarded a plane for Amsterdam in London’s Heathrow Airport in October 1996.
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