Niall Donald

Obviously, this sum of money was found during the searches.

It was put to him by Gardaí that he was part of an organised crime group and he was questioned.

The court heard about other seizures of cash and drugs, but he denied this cash charge.

in the envelopes was his and claimed he was not involved in crime in any shape or form.

Buying and selling second-hand cars.

Yeah, and buying and selling, he says specifically, it could only be from cars and it's from me shipping cars.

That's it.

And it was put to him again that his explanation was not true and the guards believed the cash to be the proceeds of crime and that...

and this is a quote, you are a main player in an organised crime group, but Grendon denied this.

And he spoke about being in the car business for 13 years, which is true.

And he admitted, or he spoke about having a big bill with revenue of over a million.

But he insisted he'd been dealing cars and he seems to have had... He has currently a big bill with revenue of over a million.

He said he had a revenue with one million, including penalties that he was trying to resolve at this moment.

Right.

But he said he was stealing cars for cash and he produced a letter saying, outlining that he was director of a company and the company was in difficulties.

Okay.

Yeah, he took that responsibility.

Now, he had a report from his accountant.

He basically said because the company was in difficulties and had been located as well in the North and in the UK, and that because there was an issue with the tax authorities in the UK,

Due to the late filing of a deadline, the company was basically dissolved.