A 32-year-old man has appeared before Portlaoise District Court as part of ongoing investigations into the alleged activities of a Leinster based organised crime group.<\/p>\n
Jake Deegan of Slatt Lower, Wolfhill, Ballylinan, Co Laois was charged with money laundering on dates between 1 April and 3 July, 2023.<\/p>\n
He was also charged with conspiring with persons unknown to the possession of controlled drugs for sale or for supply between the dates of 16 February and 2 August, 2023.<\/p>\n
He faces another charge of money laundering at Slatt Upper, Wolfhill, Ballylinan on 1 August 2023.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda David Montgomery gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution.<\/p>\n
The court was told that when cautioned Mr Deegan made no reply to each charge.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda Montgomery told the court that the Director of Prosecutions had directed the case proceed on indictment.<\/p>\n
Judge Susan Fay remanded the man in custody to Cloverhill Prison to appear back before Portlaoise District Court on 11 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 32-year-old man has appeared before Portlaoise District Court as part of ongoing investigations into the alleged activities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-483154","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\/483154","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=483154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}