The setting could not be more apt, a meeting room in the National Conference Centre, with a panoramic view over Dublin’s financial district, wet and grey on a relentlessly rainy morning. More than once in the course of our conversation, Pat Lordan, head of the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau and the Irish Financial Intelligence Unit, makes a sweeping hand gesture towards the window and the docklands below as a catch-all for the corporate targets of financial fraud and organised crime. “We’ve identified people linked to criminal organisations working in literally – I wouldn’t say every single one of their financial institutions…

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