Ireland: The Celtic Tiger Bites — The Attack on the Proceeds of Crime

Abstract

In 1996 the Irish legislature (the Oireacthas) enacted radical legislation as part of a new initiative to deal with organised crime, and with it a specialist agency, called the Criminal Assets Bureau, to enforce the new provisions. In proposing the new measures the Minister for Finance said:

Citation

Ashe, M. and Reid, P. (2001), "Ireland: The Celtic Tiger Bites — The Attack on the Proceeds of Crime", Journal of Money Laundering Control, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 253-263. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb027278