kinahan cartel bagman jailed after being caught with €169k in cash

One of the main leaders of the Kinahan cartel was jailed for four and a half years for being caught with 169,000 euros in cash. David Dowling (49)
On last July, he pleaded guilty to two charges, that is, in September 26, 2015, in the Westend retail business park in brancarstown and Sorrell Heath, where he was engaged in dealing with the proceeds of crime and was subsequently sentenced to imprisonment.
It is revealed that Dowlin has been a long time
Drug and Organized Crime Bureau (DOCB)
It is considered one of the main leaders of the Jinhan cartel.
A senior source last night said that the Dowling of clannsilla Sorrell Heath is a trusted associate of international criminal gangs responsible for organizing their criminal proceeds and cleaning up the proceeds of the crime.
\"Dowling will collect money from Dublin and across the country from the cartel drug business.
\"This is a good capture for gardai.
The money is the product that the drug imports, distributes, sells and threatens people to pay.
\"Cash is the result of all this and these seizures hurt them the most,\" the source said . \".
Today, Judge Martin Nolan said Dowling was \"an important part of the drug-trading business \".
\"David Dowling is helping these parties.
If you can\'t move the money to where you want to move, it doesn\'t make sense to have it, \"he said.
There were 17 previous convictions in Dowling, dating back to the age of 80 and 90.
Judge Nolan said that these were past convictions that he did not take into account at the time of the judgment.
Detective Garda Paul Kane told the court that on September 2015, gardai established a monitoring operation after receiving confidential information about money laundering by criminal organizations.
They stopped Dowling on a van as someone saw him pick up a package from the car while meeting in the parking lot of the West End Retail Park.
The package includes 69,610 euros in cash.
In a follow-up search of Dowling\'s family home in the clone of Xinluo, gaday seized another € 99,020 and a vacuum packaging machine.
Some cash was found wrapped in towels in the sports bag.
Judge Nolan said that the referral to the court described Dowling as \"good family, good community \".
\"Unfortunately, he was involved in a very serious plan to deal with the profits of the drug trade,\" the judge said . \".
When asked by Judge Nolan where the money came from, the detective said, \"it\'s drug money \".
He told the tribunal that he was aware of this due to information obtained from confidential sources.
Gda Kane said that Dowling is \"a gear on the wheel\" and will take the cash home, count it and wrap it up before transferring it.
The court heard that the gardai Observatory ordered a van ride to the West End Retail Park.
He got off a van and went to the front passenger door of the car and took a rectangular package.
Gardai stopped the two cars and found cash on Dowlin.
They arrested the driver of Dowling and another car and were later charged.
Subsequently, police obtained a search warrant for the Dowlin family and went to the house.
When he got there, a young man answered the door and shouted to his mother upstairs. there was a generation in the house.
Gardai went upstairs and saw a woman walking into the bedroom, throwing some clothes into the sports bag.
She picked up the bag and told them that she was taking the child to the pool.
Gardai told her to put her bag down.
While searching the bag, they found 6,000 euros hidden in the towel in the bag.
Another € 85,020 was found behind the curtains of the house, bringing the total amount of seizure in the House to € 99,020.
During the search of the House, gardai also found a machine for vacuum-packed cash.
Detective Kane said that this will not only concentrate cash, but also prevent sniffing dogs from finding cash.