Northern Ireland's Assets Recovery Agency has frozen more than £8 million in property belonging to the brothers of an alleged fuel smuggler.
The ARA won a High Court bid to seize control of 36 houses on both sides of the border.
The authority applied for an extension to the interim receiving order against Damien McGleenan after investigating his brothers Joseph and Francis.
It is claimed the pair, from Keady in Co Armagh, had assisted him in laundering the proceeds of crime.
The case was initiated by HM Revenue and Customs following a probe into suspected fuel smuggling and evasion of excise duty and VAT operating along the south Armagh border.
As well as houses and sites in Newry, Belfast, Markethill, Armagh, Keady, Newtownhamilton, Milford, Dundalk, Co Monaghan, Co Cavan and Dublin, the ARA has frozen plots of land and 11 bank accounts.
The overall value has been estimated at £8.2 million and it comes on top of the original £400,000 in the interim receiving order granted against Damien McGleenan in January 2006.
