The Criminal Assets Bureau on Tuesday seized a plush, gated home worth over €1 million which was under the control of the Kinahan cartel.
Businessman Jim Mansfield Jr handed over the property to the gang after a deal - which saw the mob give him €4.5 million in cash in two suitcases to invest in property in 2009 - went south.READ MORE: Daniel Kinahan and No 2 'Bomber' Kavanagh in rare public sighting after Regency Hotel attack Mansfield Jr consented to orders that the house, No 10 Coldwater Lakes in Saggart, Dublin, and cash be seized and disposed of by CAB.The court, sitting in Croke Park on Tuesday morning, also heard Kinahan himself lived in the house for a time and his personal items were discovered inside.Kinahan, 44, resides in Dubai but CAB do not have an address for him yet.
While Kavanagh was last week sentenced to 21 years in the UK for drug trafficking and money laundering. Mansfield Jr is in prison here after being sentenced to 18 months earlier this year for attempting to pervert the course of justice.READ MORE: Gardai probe if mob boss Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh was involved with weapons seized in Dublin