Courts allow alleged brothel owner to keep profits

An application by the State for the confiscation of €670,000 as the estimated profits from five brothels run by a former cruise-ship chef has been refused by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Courts allow alleged brothel owner to keep profits

An application by the State for the confiscation of €670,000 as the estimated profits from five brothels run by a former cruise-ship chef has been refused by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Paul Humphreys (aged 63), a native of Cork city centre, who received a two-year sentence and a €40,000 fine in May 2007 for running five brothels was estimated to have earned as much as €780,000 a year from them.

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