The Criminal Asset Bureau has seized the Dublin home of the gangland criminal James Gately, a senior figure in the Hutch Organised Crime Group.
Gately bought the house on Glin Drive in Coolock a number of years ago for €125,000 and put on an extension, effectively doubling its size, for another €440,000.
The house was boarded up this afternoon.
The High Court ruled last year the house, a car and a watch belonging to Gately and his partner Charlene Lam worth a total of over €600,000 were the proceeds of crime.
Mr Justice Alexander Owens said the couple 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 is a senior figure in the Hutch Organised Crime Group and has survived several attempts on his life by the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.
The CAB told the High Court that Gately was part of a criminal gang involved in armed robbery and the importation of drugs.
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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 which 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.
The CAB also said he was a suspect in three murders: Aidan Byrne in 2010, David Byrne in 2016 and Eamon 'The Don' Dunne in 2010.
Several attempts have been made on his life and he has been shot on two occasions.
He drove a Volkswagen Golf GTI car and his partner wore a Rolex watch worth over €4,000.
Thousands of euro was also spent on jewellery and plastic surgery.
Today, officers from the CAB took possession of Gately's Coolock home which will be sold on the open market and the proceeds submitted to the Exchequer.
