The Criminal Asset Bureau (CAB) has sold the Dublin home of gangland criminal James Gately, a senior figure in the Hutch organised crime group.
The three-bedroom, two-bathroom semi-detached home on Glin Drive in Coolock was sold at auction for €308,000.
Gately bought the house in 2013 for €125,000 and spent another €440,000 on renovations, including an extension that effectively doubled its size.
The house was badly damaged when CAB seized it and it was boarded up.
Gately said in an affidavit that his relationship with his former partner, Charlene Lam, had come to an end and that he was living alone at the house when he removed the staircase, kitchen, doors and other fittings.
Mr Justice Alexander Owens said he accepted Ms Lam had left the property prior to the damage and that she should receive €11,000 from its sale.
The High Court ruled last year that the house, a car and a watch belonging to Gately and his former partner, worth a total of over €600,000, were the proceeds of crime.
He drove a Golf GTI car, and she wore a Rolex watch worth over €4,000.
Thousands of euro was also spent on jewellery and plastic surgery.
Mr Justice Owens said the couple had lived an exotic lifestyle of cruises on the high seas and were virtually never in the State.
One cruise over three weeks took in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea and Japan.
Gately has survived several attempts on his life by the rival Kinahan organised crime group.
CAB told the High Court that Gately was part of a criminal gang involved in armed robbery and the importation of drugs.
He had been regarded as part of the Kinahan organised crime gang until the murder of Gary Hutch in 2015, which sparked the ongoing Hutch Kinahan feud that has so far cost 18 lives.
Gately has been targeted and shot several times by the Kinahan organised crime group, which, on one occasion, brought to Ireland the Estonian hitman Imre Arakas to shoot him.
CAB said Gately had also been arrested over a tiger-robbery and a post office heist, and that he was a suspect in three murders, Aidan Byrne in 2010, David Byrne in 2016 and Eamon 'The Don' Dunne in 2010.
He has been shot on two occasions.
