Gardai have seized a huge haul of assets including €18,600 in cash, fake €20 notes, six cars, designer clothes, drugs paraphernalia and three Rolex watches in CAB raids across eight counties.
The Criminal Assets Bureau swooped on five homes and sixteen businesses on Thursday morning in counties Roscommon, Longford, Offaly, Laois, Westmeath, Tipperary, Cavan and Dublin.
Officers from the Garda Emergency Response Unit, the Garda Regional Armed Support Unit (Western Region) and local Longford gardai assisted in the operation.
A total of 21 searches were carried out as part of an operation targeting an organised crime gang involved in the sale and supply of controlled drugs in the Longford area.
A man in his 20s was arrested by local Gardaí under the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud) Offences Act, 2001.
Also among the haul was a 191 Ford Focus, two 181 Ford Focus cars, a 181 Ford Ranger, two 161 Ford Focus cars, a TuffMac car trailer and a car towing dolly.
Photos from the scene show piles of €50 and €100 notes, a pricey Rolex Datejust watch and Ralph Lauren, Balenciaga and Tommy Hilfiger clothing.
Another snap shows the impounded vehicles being loaded onto a truck to be taken away.
Gardai also seized financial documents, computers and mobile phones and drugs paraphernalia.
