An Irish man has been arrested in Spain in connection with an ongoing garda investigation into the activities of an organised crime group based in Dublin and Spain.<\/p>\n
The garda\u00ed are seeking the man’s extradition back to Ireland to face charges.<\/p>\n
The man was arrested by officers from the Guardia Civil on foot of an extradition warrant issued by the High Court in Dublin.<\/p>\n
He is being detained in Spain and can decide to contest the charges or agree to be escorted back to Ireland.<\/p>\n
The arrest is part of a garda investigation which has been ongoing for the past five years.<\/p>\n
Officers from the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation have been investigating alleged links between garda\u00ed and members of a transnational organised crime group, the movements of large sums of money and the purchase of a number of properties in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Irish man has been arrested in Spain in connection with an ongoing garda investigation into the activities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-388120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}