Gardaí to probe source of funds for far-right National Party's gold

The leader of the National Party, Justin Barrett, went public on social media on Tuesday alleging that a “considerable quantity of gold” had been removed from the party’s safe vault in Dublin and had gone missing. 

Gardaí are trying to determine the identity of those who funded the €400,000 worth of gold bullion that is at the centre of a dispute inside a small far-right political party.

In a case that various security sources describe as “bizarre”, detectives are investigating who owns the gold bars—which were stashed into a vault of The National Party—and whether or not the gold was paid for by legitimate income.