CAB are busy in these Criminal Times .Criminal Assets Bureau takes control of two houses in one day ahead of potential combined €600,000 sale .More bargains for sale?

The Criminal Assets Bureau has taken control of two properties linked to crime in one day and is likely to sell them for a combined €600,000, it has emerged.

The Irish Mirror has confirmed that officers took control of a house in rural Co Clare on Monday – at the same time they got possession of a property in Co Laois bought by former escort Mary Cash. In the Clare operation, CAB officers took receivership of a house belonging to William McInerney, 50, in Kealderra, Bodyke. The High Court granted CAB permission to take possession of the house in April – after officers gave evidence that Mr McInerney bought it through the activity of an organised crime gang in Munster.

18 with proceeds derived from burglaries allegedly carried out by her husband, Andrew Cash, and her brother, Henry Kiely, neither of whom was subject to the CAB proceedings.

CAB officers also told last year’s hearing that new floors and a front door had been fitted to the house – despite the couple’s modest means. In April, Mr Justice Alexander Owens granted CAB control of the house at Harpur’s Lane, in Portlaoise and told Mrs Cash she had to vacate it by Monday, which she did.