GARDA\u00cd HAVE SEIZED two cars, watches and designer bags as part of an investigation into a Dublin-based charity.<\/p>\n
Detectives from the money laundering investigation unit at the garda\u2019s National Economic Crime Bureau carried out a series of searches in the Dublin, eastern and southern regions on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Two BMW X5 cars with a combined estimated value of \u20ac250,000 were seized during the searches.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed also recovered Louis Vuitton bags, Rolex watches, jewellery and other high-value items with an estimated combined value of \u20ac40,000.<\/p>\n
The operation formed part of an ongoing investigation being conducted with the Office of the Charities Regulator.<\/p>\n
In a statements, the Regulator confirmed that the organisation \u201cis a charity and the Charities Regulator is engaging with its trustees\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs there is an active Garda investigation, the Charities Regulator will not be commenting further,\u201d a Regulator spokesperson added.<\/p>\n
The National Economic Crime Bureau investigates serious and complex financial crime, including money laundering.<\/p>\n
No details have been released about the charity under investigation or the locations searched.<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigations are ongoing,\u201d a garda spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDA\u00cd HAVE SEIZED two cars, watches and designer bags as part of an investigation into a Dublin-based charity.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-661992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661992","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=661992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}