The Assets Recovery Agency in Northern Ireland has frozen assets worth over £750,000 as part of a criminal investigation into cross-border fuel smuggling.
The assets of two brothers, Sean and John Byrne from Belleeks in south Armagh, were seized after a joint investigation by the agency and the Criminal Assets Bureau in Dublin.
The assets include a petrol filling station and business premises in Camlough, a petrol filling station and premises at Meeting Street, Warrenpoint, a house in Newry, Co Down, an apartment at St John's Wharf, Belfast, a number of vehicles and a number of bank accounts.
The case was referred to the agency by HM Revenue and Customs as a result of its joint criminal investigation with the Criminal Assets Bureau into fuel smuggling and laundering on both sides of the border.
