IRELAND STILL STRUGGLE WITH PARAMILITARY-LINKED MONEY LAUNDERING
October 1st, 2016
As the Northern Ireland government lurched from crisis to political crisis in recent years there has been less focus on the rivers of dirty money flowing through and out of the province, the results of criminal enterprises run by Ulster’s paramilitaries. With the British and Irish governments focused on ensuring a power sharing government’s survival, paramilitaries have had two decades since the Good Friday Agreement (1998) to legitimise their cash. Much of the dirty money has gone into property in Ireland, the UK and even further afield, but ...
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