Trading as Autolines in Co Tipperary, SJK Wholesale Ltd engaged in wilful tax avoidance and bought cars at auction in the UK with money believed by the High Court to be derived from mandate frauds.
The Supreme Court ruled this week that a Swedish businessman challenging the Criminal Assets Bureau’s seizure of €600,000 can present new evidence in a “limited hearing”.
A Swedish man failed in his appeal to stop the Criminal Assets Bureau transferring more than €600,000, linked to alleged credit card scams, to the State. The saga has been running for over 20 years.
The Criminal Assets Bureau seized 112 cars and froze millions of euro in the pursuit of a car dealership it claimed to be "an engine of fraud, fuelled by money-laundering”.
Rather than fight, the Criminal Assets Bureau's new chief says that most of its targets simply “walk away”. Ireland's top financial cop sets out his agenda.
Sabina Murphy worked 14 years as a civil servant including with the Revenue Commissioners. Then the Criminal Assets Bureau secured freezing orders against her bank accounts.
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