Philip Boucher Hayes

We're going back 30 years, but one hundred and seventy million pounds worth of drugs had come in between 1994 and 96 through this one gang alone.

So that's an awful lot of money, an awful lot of wealth, a lot of criminal cash.

Cab started going after that from day one, from 1996.

And it has continued ever since.

I looked at the most recent figures because the figures really tell the story, David, for 2024.

CAB had its, you might call it, its most busy and successful year chasing the criminal cash.

They gave back over €17 million in 2024 to the Exchequer.

And the idea is that those monies are meant to go back into the communities most affected.

And there's a lot of discussion about, to this day, there are parts of this country that suffer deprivation and where there is...

open drug dealing as well.

And this is the kind of thing that Veronica would have been exposing in her time.

Yeah, it was.

And it had two effects because to crack this gang and to get in under the hood of this gang, they needed to talk to members of the gang.

And there were three people who entered the Witness Protection Programme who came from within that gang,

John Donne was a man down in Cork who was being paid £1,000 a time to facilitate drugs coming in from Holland.

So he was at one level.

Russell Warren was a money man.

He was somebody who laundered the cash.

He counted the cash and disseminated the monies as well.

And then Charles Bowden was another level.