Corruption and the Criminal Assets Bureau

international | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis Tuesday September 19, 2006 21:57 by Kevin T. Walsh - Social Justice and Ethics

Criminal Asset Bureau, ARA,

The concept of power; absolute power

Quotation:

Freedom
'The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State.
The only one I know is Freedom of Thought and Action

Albert Camus (1915-1960) French Writer

A number of months ago, the CAB raided offices and properties in Louth, Dublin, Meath and Wicklow as part of an investigation of alleged IRA money laundering.

McDowell uses the phrase the IRA have established a 'State within a State'. This begs the question where all this is coming from.

I am neither Sinn Fein nor Republican minded. I have been accused on this site as being the K. Walsh in Castlerea prison which I laugh at.

These raids, I talk about tonight - they also have occurred in the North of Ireland. The one's in the North amaze me, particularly the timing of them.

Then we have Dermot Creaven. Mr. Creaven, who is a successful business man was raided by the Assets Recovery Agency in October 2005. This man has been 44 years in business and one day he says 'my reputation was sullied for life'.

He says we still get people calling us gangsters and abusing the staff. The ARA is the North of Ireland is headed up by PSNI Chief Constable Alan McQuillen. McQuillen has a deep obsession now and during his years in Special Branch - the obsession has grown into bitterness, bigoted and dubious well planned raids. As he says himself, information we receive from unknown sources. The ARA claim that 250 properties operated by Manchester based company run by Creaven were owned by South Armagh IRA leader Slab Murphy. The value of these properties was estimated at Stg30 m.

5 months later and no charges were ever brought against Mr. Creaven. The man only had an Irish name and that was the only connection he had with Ireland.

These Police officers led by McQuillen knew before hand there was nothing to be found illegal and as inquiries concluded - nothing was found only damage to Mr. Creaven's reputation and his company in Manchester.

I again ask the question is there a connection deep between McDowell's foot soldiers down here and McQuillen's men, up North. What is the Agenda?

In January of this year, the CAB raided more than 20 properties in Dublin, Meath and Dublin, again as part of IRA Money Laundering. Some of these people were decent accountants, lawyers, business people.

Some solicitors who were raided were acting for the owner of a Dublin hotel and who also owned a number of pubs. Again no charges, nothing found just total harrassment. Well planned and Why?

In December 2005, the Stormont spyring case collapses - we all know now - Denis Donaldson RIP (exposed as a British spy) so that put pay to the Spy Ring Allegations. Now if I am wrong, correct me, if anybody was to be charged with this Walt Disney situation, it was the British themselves. Put McQuillan in the Dock.

March 2002 - Break-in at Castereagh. Ronnie Flanagan at the time, Chief Constable said 'Inside Job'. Special Branch said the IRA were behind the job and then said they wanted to speak to an American Chef, Larry Zaitchek, as one of the main suspects in the raid. Was this Chef cooking the Books!!! Four years on there are no extradition warrants for him to face charges. Quite amazing.

What is the agenda in all of this. This has gone beyond Politics, the IRA, Republicanism, it now could possibly affect any decent Irish citizen who has relation, in law, cousin, neighbour suspected of any Republican links. How safe is the ordinary person's career.....This is not democracy.

Just one more interesting point, who runs the IMC on Republicanism or the IRA? This organisation challenged the international commission on decommissioning. It's report suggested that the IRA held on enormous amounts of Arms, it did this to the contrary intelligence of the Garda Siochana down South - This was totally incorrect. But now here is the dark shadow - McDowell allows three members of the PSNI branch to come to Dublin to work with An Garda Siochana - McDowell refers to it as cross border policing. Who gave a mandate for three foreign police men to come to work on foreign land (Ireland). Where is our Constitution?

I beg the question that no-one questioned this. Enda Kenny, Pat Rabbittee, the Greens. And Sadly, the people of Ireland.

How safe our we in a Police State (Donegal, Wheelock, Rossiter and others in our prison service) and last the inept mental health provision and the death of John Carthy in Abbeylara. Then there is the new form of landlordism i.e. Corporatism. We must ask serious questions about the Rossport 5 imprisonment.

Kevin T. Walsh