The past seven days have seen two high-profile gangland murders.
A RENEWED CALL has been made for the setting up of a mini-Criminal Assets Bureau to target the goods and money of lower-level drug dealers.
This comes in the wake of the high-profile murders of David Byrne, an associate of the Kinahan crime gang, and Eddie Hutch, brother of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.
The Criminal Assets Bureau was introduced in 1996 and has the power to seize back the proceeds of crime, returning more than €3.8 million to the Exchequer in 2014. Its attention is mostly focused on senior crime figures.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, outgoing TD for Dublin Central Maureen O’Sullivan, said: ”People are seeing lower-level drug dealers within communities doing extremely well without any income. And people know they’re drug dealers.
“Young people see the money that dealers are making, and it’s hard for the school and community groups to deal with that.
Source: Michael Sheils McNamee, The Journal, 10/02/16
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