Decommissioning the crime lords is what process is really all about

IN RECENT weeks rumour had it that in West Belfast you could buy a £20 Northern Bank note for £1.

You could launder your money, you were told, at payment machines in airport and cinema car parks. The machines wouldn't recognise your notes as stolen and you could collect your winnings in change. People were to be seen, the story went, driving in and out of car parks repeatedly.

The dramatic events of recent days suggest that the IRA has much more sophisticated ways of laundering money.