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Suspected drug dealer Christopher ‘Git’ Waldron loses home to Criminal Assets Bureau

CAB had targeted his Killalla Road home in Cabra which he had extensively renovated, along with another house in Finglas and designer watches

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SUSPECTED drug-dealer Christopher ‘Git’ Waldron has lost his home to the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), bringing an end to a three-year legal wrangle.

CAB had targeted his Killalla Road home in Cabra which he had extensively renovated, along with another house in Finglas and designer watches which had been seized by officers.

At a brief High Court hearing last week it emerged it was agreed the Cabra house would be turned over to CAB but that the Finglas property would be returned to the suspected mobster.

A ladies’ Rolex watch valued at over €17,000 and two men’s designer watches were also kept by CAB after the proceeds of crime case was settled.

The Sunday World previously photographed a shirtless ‘Git’ Waldron outside his Cabra home where he has been living.

In such cases under the Proceeds of Crime Act a receiver can be given the power to take over the property and to put it on the market.

A Section 3 order prohibiting the sale or disposal of the house was granted in the High Court in 2020 by Justice Alexander Owens, but has taken three years to reach the next stage in the process.

His brother David Waldron, a convicted drug dealer, is sweating on his own €2.9 million CAB case which went through a two-day hearing earlier this month, ahead of a judgement being made.

Last year ‘Git’ Waldron hit the headlines after he bought suits for some mourners and carried the coffin at the funeral of gangland feud victim James ‘Whela’ Whelan.

Whelan’s murder in April, is part of a feud involving members of the gang led by the Finglas criminal known as ‘Mr Flashy’.

Git Waldron, who was a former associate of Eamonn ‘the Don’ Dunne, was keen to show his support to Whelan’s side at his funeral carrying Whelan’s coffin into the church.

The Waldron brothers are believed to have filled the void left by Dunne after his murder in Cabra, Dublin, in 2010 and are known associates of Wayne and Alan ‘Fatpuss’ Bradley.

The CAB case against David Waldron is even bigger, centering around three properties in Dublin, Kildare and Wexford, including ‘Darview’ a luxury mansion.

CAB asserted the three properties were paid for with the proceeds of crime and Waldron has failed to adequately explain a credible alternative source for the money.

CAB suspected Waldron was still earning money from criminality which he has denied and claims that his income came through legal means.

His case has also proceeded slowly through the system with hearings over whether or not free legal aid should be granted.

At one such hearing last year involving David Waldron and his wife Charlene, it emerged a christening party was held at a hotel where the venue was paid €5,000 in cash.

Counsel for CAB said other expenses would have been included for the party at which two bands and a DJ played for the 100 guests.

The couple were playing “cat and mouse with the court” and their replies in affidavits do not explain their wealth but are just “bald assertions”, it was heard.

It was previously heard how he had purchased a property in Glenties Park, Finglas, in September 2001 and then invested in a second property in River Forest, Leixlip, Co. Kildare, before building ‘Darview’ in Co. Wexford for €1.6 million.

The 3,000 sq ft mansion in Wexford has its own bar, with a pool table as well as a gym, and views looking out over valleys in the Wexford countryside.

The Darview build involved six different cash transfers using four different people.

Waldron’s wife Charlene, who has no involvement in crime, had successfully applied to be seen as a partial owner of Darview, and said she had paid for her share through legitimate means.

The Leixlip property had €315,000 in renovations carried out to it while another property in Cabra saw €633,000 spent on it, according to CAB.

During another hearing, it emerged that CAB officers followed the financial trail back decades to show Waldron never had enough cash to pay for his properties.

Waldron, who had spent a number of years in prison or on social welfare, would have had to save most of his €18,000 dole money in 2001 to have the savings he claimed to use to buy his first house.