{"id":662152,"date":"2026-10-22T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662152\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:30:12","slug":"investigation-into-charity-sees-seizure-of-cars-and-high-value-items-worth-nearly-e300k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662152\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into charity sees seizure of cars and high-value items worth nearly \u20ac300k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">An investigation into a charity has led to the seizure of two cars and other high-value items worth nearly \u20ac300,000 at locations in the east and south of the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Detectives attached to the Money Laundering Investigation Unit carried out a number of searches at locations in Dublin and the Eastern and Southern regions on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5267666_4_articleinlinemobile_Bags.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"card-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two BMW X5 cars valued at around \u20ac250,000 and other items including Louis Vuitton bags, Rolex watches and jewellery worth around \u20ac40,000 were seized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5267669_10_articleinlinemobile_BMW_20x5_201.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"card-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The investigation, into a Dublin-based charitable organisation, is carried out in conjunction with the office of the Charities Regulator,&#8221; a Garda spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Investigations ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tX<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5244856_1_org_gift-image.png\" alt=\"Irish Examiner Gift Subscriptions\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        Looking for a thoughtful gift?\u200b<\/p>\n<p class=\"banner-text-subhedline\" id=\"soft-description\">Irish Examiner Gift subscriptions are now available.<\/p>\n<p id=\"soft-signin\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation into a charity has led to the seizure of two cars and other high-value items worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,72,3221,61,60],"class_list":["post-662152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-business","tag-charity","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662152","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=662152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}