Gardaí seize €622,000 in cash and arrest three men in Dublin

Ottoline Spearman

Gardaí seized €622,000 in cash and arrested three men in Dublin on Friday.

The Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau conducted searches at two separate business premises in Dublin city centre and North Dublin as part of ongoing investigations targeting organised crime activity under Operation Tara.

During the course of this operation €622,000 in cash was recovered along with a number of digital devices of evidential value.

Gardaí also arrested three males - one in his 30s, two in their 40s - who are currently detained under Section 50 of Criminal Justice Act 2007 at Garda Stations in Dublin.

Following the operation, Assistant Commissioner Angela Willis who is in charge of Organised & Serious Crime said: "This significant seizure of cash is further evidence of our ongoing collaboration with international partners and targeting of the facilitators and enablers who launder the vast sums of cash generated from casual drug use.

"The Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau alone has seized in excess of €3 million in cash during 2025, and continues to disrupt and dismantle identified national priority high-risk criminal networks, in our efforts to make our communities safer.”