Niall Donald

So you've covered lots of cases involving the Criminal Assets Bureau, obviously in this year and last year.

But what we see is a trend where, as well as targeting the people that are suspected of involvement in organised crime, increasingly the girlfriends or the partners or the wives

of these criminals are also being targeted and that's something that maybe didn't happen as much in the past.

But a good example of that is the partners of two guys who have been linked to the family gang and probably now the biggest single supplier of cocaine in Ireland.

Tell us about this case and who it's targeting.

And I mean, again, like, another sort of recent feature of the Cab case is where they're targeting these guys, sort of mid-level, I suppose, like they're hired members of the family gang, but they're not

You know, importing drugs or anything.

They're really, you know, street captains.

But again, the Criminal Assets Bureau have this policy now of targeting the clothes, the jewellery, all of the stuff that I suppose becomes, is so important to these guys.

And, you know...

there's a phenomenal list of stuff there that's taken in this case.

Because I know that because I do know...

A family member, let's say, bought a pair of fake Balenciaga and they still cost 200 quid, the fake ones.

Yeah, so you see these guys like Gagan and White, the family are, I suppose, an international crime gang.

But they still have this really strong base in West Dublin and they're also, you can see in some of the seizures, many of them which we can't get into because there's cases before the courts how they've basically had agents in every corner of the country.

But West Dublin is still their base.

And they have these, I suppose in mafia terms, these are the captains, people like Gagan and Brad White, who are probably not getting involved in the international aspect of the business.

But they're certainly controlling, you know, controlling that side of the business.

Yeah, very violent crime and I suppose given the fact he's a young man the length of sentence sort of reflects that there's a lot of violence used

Now, Charmaine and Charlene, they're named in these cab cases.