Status symbols of the new Irish criminal: Walk-in wardrobes and Instagrammable lives

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Early one summer morning in 2020, teams of gardaí, led by the Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab), fanned out across Dublin and into north Wicklow, targeting 13 sites to search in a money-laundering inquiry. But what they uncovered was the Dublin underworld’s secret “bank”. The most attractive financial service offered was a cash transfer system never previously discovered in the Republic, and news of which has not emerged before now. If Irish criminals wanted to move large sums of money – the proceeds of their drug dealing – out of the country, that usually meant using couriers to smuggle cash through...