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Fri 10 Oct 2009€20 weekend drugs spend funds gang killings, says the Cab
PEOPLE WHO spend €20 at the weekend on cannabis but who distance themselves from gangland killings need to know they are financing the gangs that carry them out, the new chief of the Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) has said.
At a conference on organised crime in Dublin yesterday, Det Chief Supt Pat Byrne said other European countries should examine the Irish model of non-conviction based forfeiture of criminal assets. The conference, hosted by the Institute of International and European Affairs, was also addressed by Europol director Rob Wainwright and Gary Leong, senior lawyer with the Serious Fraud Office in Britain.
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