A number of searches have been carried out in Dublin and Spain as part of an international operation targeting an organised money-laundering crime gang on Wednesday.
Ten searches in all were conducted in Spain, with gardaí from the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation assisting the local Guardia Civil force.
A search also took place in Clontarf following receipt of International Letter of Request- Mutual Legal Assistance from Spanish authorities.
It is reported that the suspected criminal targeted is extensively linked to the Hutch Organised Crime Group.
Gardaí say the search in Dublin was conducted by yher Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
A previous search targeting the group was overseen in Lanzarote in June 2022 by local police officers on behalf of the Irish-based GNBCI.
That operation saw a property used by a close associate of the Hutch family in the resorts near Lanzarote searched by officers.
That property was reportedly not the home where Gerry ‘The Monk‘ Hutch who had been living there in recent years before the outbreak of the Hutch/Kinahan feud.
