Gardaí carried out searches of two properties in rural West Mayo as part of an operation that formed part of an intelligence-led investigation into criminal activity on the Darkweb.

On Saturday, gardaí intercepted a vehicle shortly before 9:00 pm in North County Dublin.

Helen Richardson and David Dwyer face over one hundred charges of theft and money laundering

The men were arrested by gardaí from the Donegal Division

The car was searched in Drumcondra, Dublin, on Friday.

Stelian Ciuciu (32) posed as part of a couple with another woman who was working as an escort to rent properties from unsuspecting landlords, which he then advertised to escorts for their use, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard on Tuesday.

Ms Carey appeared before Judge Orla Crowe On Monday, when her barrister, Kevin Roche BL, said she was seeking a trial date. He told the judge that the trial would take four to six weeks.

Keith Carter (32) was before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Monday.

Searches took place across Dublin and the wider Eastern Region on Wednesday morning

He had pleaded guilty to handling €1,058,575, the proceeds of crime, at that address on June 13th, 2024.

Ilamar Rodrigues Ribeiro (54) was arrested by investigating gardaí from the Garda Human Trafficking and Co-ordination Unit when he returned to Ireland from his native Brazil.

The court heard that Sodiq Jimoh (30) of Rossfield Close, Rossfield, Tallaght, Dublin 24, was responsible for laundering €1,000,065 from various individual people and small Irish companies.

A corporal in the Irish Defence Forces was involved in a money laundering operation that handled over €6.6 million worth of drug dealers’ cash, a court has heard

Kelvin Kleinovas (24) pleaded guilty to having the proceeds of crime in his bank account in August 2019.

Russian citizens placed under sanctions amid the war in Ukraine took advantage of the network to disguise the origin of their cash and buy property in Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.

A Louth resident who recruited a number of people to allow their bank accounts to be used to facilitate a money laundering operation has been jailed for a year

10 searches were carried out in Spain on Wednesday as part of this operation targeting the Hutch organised crime group, that is suspected of being involved in money laundering across a number of jurisdictions.

Eimear O'Keeffe - aka Nikki Hayes - was discharged from the indictment, after the Judge took into account a number of mitigating factors

A woman arrested as part of this investigation has been released from custody.

Kevin Daniel Andrei (23) appeared at Dublin District Court charged with three counts of possessing close to €600,000 in crime proceeds

David Callaghan (33) was sentenced to thirteen and a half years in prison, with the final five years suspended, after he pleaded guilty to assisting or facilitating the criminal organisation's activities between April 29th, 2021 and February 4th, 2022.

17 bank accounts have been blocked under suspicion of being opened under false names.

Serial launderer Mark Adams (44) was previously jailed here after he was caught laundering over €1 million for criminals

Paul Olunaike (34), a Dublin father-of-four, pleaded guilty to possessing €13,738 as the proceeds of crime in his bank account on August 25th, 2020.

Since last September, the operation has resulted in 48 people being charged with offences

Caitriona Shaw (42) of Whitestown Way, Tallaght, Dublin 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of invoice redirect fraud in March 2020 targeting genuine companies,

John Murray (43) was sentenced to two years in prison after the court heard his wife, Kellie Walton (42), transferred a total of €872,470 to his bank account over a ten-year period

Officers are investigating the unauthorised distribution of prescription medications linked with cosmetic and beauty treatments.

Martin Roche (62) agreed to become the director of a company in 2012 that encouraged investment in a fictitious social housing scheme in Brazil

The man and a woman, were detained by officers from the Corporate Enforcement Authority over the weekend, and can be held for 24 hours.

Sandra Hehir (56) will have to be of good behaviour for a period of two years after her release or she will face a further 12 months in prison

Karl Duggan (38) was arrested in January 2021 at a Dublin hotel by gardaí who had been given a confidential tip-off, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard on Monday

The pair pleaded guilty to charges relating to the scheme which saw €1.4 million transferred into their shared bank account from unwitting German investors

Almost 40 searches were carried out in locations throughout Dublin and Wicklow as part of the operation on Thursday

They said that twelve members had been convicted of either careless driving or drunk driving in the period between January 2020 and November 22nd last year.

Over €11,000 in cash was seized during the operation, along with 13 mobile phones and various documents