More than €90,000 has been seized and a man and a woman in their 30s arrested after an operation targeting suspicious ATM withdrawals in Cork and Dublin.
Officers from the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau led an operation which saw a vehicle in Dublin searched, leading to the seizure of a large quantity of cash and multiple bank cards.
That operation followed a series of large-scale cash withdrawals from ATMs across Dublin and Cork between August 11 and September 9, a garda spokesperson said.
Those transactions had involved the use of bank cards linked to accounts in Poland and Norway.
After the search of the vehicle — located in Lucan in the west of Dublin — a man in his early 30s was arrested and detained, the spokesperson said.
In the wake of that arrest, a woman — also aged in her 30s — was also detained.
Both she and the man are being held at the same garda station in the Dublin region.
Gardaí said that a further search had been carried out at a property in Cork, where gardaí recovered more cash, foreign currency, fake IDs, bank cards, and mobile phones.
All told, more than €90,000 in cash has been seized as part of the same investigation, the spokesperson said.
Officers are now liaising directly with international law enforcement agencies via Europol with regard to the relevant bank accounts in Poland and Norway, while both of the people arrested remain in custody.