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Luxury three-bed semi seized from Kinahan associate goes on sale for €400,000
Luxury three-bed semi seized from Kinahan associate goes on sale for €400,000
28th May 2021
A lavish three-bedroom semi Crumlin, formerly owned by Kinahan associate Liam Byrne, has been put on the market for €400,000.
The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) confiscated the Dublin 12 property in 2019 as part of a major operation to seize the gang’s assets.
The property, which was purchased for €250,000 in 2011 and later valued at over €1m, was stripped of most of its expensive fixtures and fittings before CAB took possession of it.
The house is advertised as a three-bedroom home with a garage containing a gym and spa room, and an outhouse in the enclosed back garden that was fitted out as a games room with a bar and a small WC.
The accommodation comprises of a porch and entrance hallway, living room, kitchen-dining room, guest toilet, utility room, playroom/reception room, three bedrooms, the main bathroom, and an attic conversion.
Byrne also installed a panic room, heavily fortified walls and a jacuzzi as part of a €740,000 upgrade.
Byrne was named by CAB in high court submissions as being head of the Byrne organised crime group, which was linked to the Kinahan cartel and involved in the import and distribution of drugs and firearms in Ireland.
The property, described as Byrne’s ‘crown jewel’, was one of 47 assets worth a total of €2.7m confiscated under proceeds of crime legislation as part of Operation Lamp.
Three properties, 29 vehicles, three electric bikes, a dune buggy, four Rolex and Breitling watches, two platinum and diamond rings and over €50,000 were also seized.
Byrne’s brother David Byrne was killed in the Regency Hotel shooting of February 2016 as part of the escalating Hutch-Kinahan feud.
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