There was no acceptable evidence to rebut evidence of a prima-facie probability that the cash seized was drug-dealing money, judge says
Barrister Grainne O’Neill, for the Criminal Assets Bureau, told the High Court Dermot Calvert was a 'career criminal' who has had associations with prominent criminals and had no visible source of legitimate income. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni/Collinshas found a house, a former shop premises, car and cash seized from a convicted drug dealer and members of his family were funded by the proceeds of crime.
The Singland Crescent house was bought in a derelict state for €17,250 in 2014 with the money paid directly to the vendor and at what the Cab said was a significant undervalue and sourced from illegitimate funds. He has signed “numerous” social welfare assessments that were false. When asked how he funded the 2019 purchase of a €7,000 van, he said it was a “few scams, ‘tomo’ jobs and window cleaning”, she said.
There was also no basis on which he could be satisfied that the making of proceeds-of-crime orders in relation to Cloughan Court and the seizing of the two amounts of cash or the VW Passat would result in a serious injustice, he said.While it is owned by Ms Calvert, its current condition has been subsidised by her father’s proceeds of crime.
She has had a very bad break in life in that she has two young daughters with cystic fibrosis, he said.
Criminal-Assets-Bureau Limerick
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