Paying nearly €10 for a bog-standard email address might seem far-fetched today but in 2002, it wasn’t so unusual. It is the business model at the centre of a Criminal Assets Bureau saga that has drawn on for more than 20 years and only came to a conclusion last month with the Court of Appeal ruling that over $650,000 (€597,000) at the centre of an alleged credit card fraud, and seized by CAB, could be transferred to the State. Mr Justice Binchy ruled against the appeal by Swedish man Harry Zeman, who had claimed rightful ownership of the money, and…

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