Five arrests made and hundreds of thousands of euros in cash seized as part of ongoing Irish element to international investigation
Cocaine arrests: Gardaí have gathered significant intelligence on powerful Irish criminals involved in international drug dealing, made arrests and seized evidence after Irish detectives were part of a European and North American operation that infiltrated an encrypted messaging system.Illustration: Paul Scott
The Irish Times understands a drugs gang which is from Dublin was a significant target of the operation, as were other figures in the drugs underworld in the Republic. There have been some arrests of Irish suspects, with evidence seized from them. As well as the Garda and Europol, the infiltration of the encrypted messaging platform and the use of the evidence extracted from it has also involved the FBI, Canadian Mounted Police, French National Gendarmerie and Australian Federal Police. There has also been involvement by the authorities in Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden.
The same gang, which is the largest Irish criminal group seriously compromised by the infiltration of the encrypted messaging platform, made significant progress expanding during the pandemic years. Gardaí believe that group owned some of the largest sums of cash and biggest consignments of drugs seized in recent years, including during the pandemic.
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