¤200,000 is seized in border raids
Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:06
The three people held for questioning following today's cross-border search operation have been released without charge.
Files are to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
An estimated ¤200,000, as well as fuel and 30,000 cigarettes were seized in the raids along the border in a joint Garda/PSNI operation directed against organised crime.
Two shotguns, computers and boxes of documents were also taken away for examination during the raids in north Co Louth and south Co Armagh.
Up to 400 gardaí, PSNI, customs officers and military personnel from Northern Ireland and the Republic were involved in the search.
About a dozen properties have been searched in what is described as one of the biggest ever cross-border raids.
At one stage, an area around the family home of Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, allegedly a former IRA chief of staff, was sealed off.
- News At One: Richard Dowling, North-East Correspondent, speaks about the series of cross-border raids in Co Louth and Co Armagh
- One News: Richard Dowling, North-East Correspondent, reports on the border operation in Co Louth and Co Armagh in which cash and documents were seized and three people were arrested
- Morning Ireland: Richard Dowling, North-East Correspondent, reports on what is known so far about today's raids by police, customs and military personnel on properties in the border area
- Nine News: Richard Dowling reports live from Dundalk
- Nine News: Richard Dowling, North-East Correspondent, reports that three people have been arrested in a huge cross-border search involving up to 400 security and customs officials
- Six One News: Richard Dowling and Paul Reynolds, Crime Correspondent, discuss the joint Garda/PSNI operation directed against organised crime
- Six One News: Richard Dowling, North-East Correspondent, reports on raids in Co Louth and Co Armagh
