The Untouchables: Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau and its War on Organised Crime.
Author: WILLIAMS, Paul.
Dublin: Merlin, 2006. xvi, 297 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
Since 1996, the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has been on the front line in the war against organised crime, hitting the godfathers where it really hurts - in their pockets.
Now, for the first time ever, The Untouchables tells the extraordinary inside story of one of the most successful crime fighting units in the world.
Williams exclusively reveals the Bureau’s top-secret operations which forced criminals from all walks of life to pay out over €100 MILLION of their ill-gotten-gains. He tells, in dramatic detail, how the Criminal Assets Bureau brought the gangsters and white collar criminals, who thought they had beaten the system, to justice.
The Untouchables uncovers how the Criminal Assets Bureau targeted some of the underworld’s most notorious drug traffickers, bank robbers and corrupt officials, including Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch, George ‘the Penguin’ Mitchell, John Gilligan, disgraced former Government Ministers Ray Burke and Michael Keating, and the General - 10 years after his death.
Williams re-creates the atmosphere of menace and fear which led to the establishment of the multi-agency Bureau, who finally showed the gangsters that THEY were no longer untouchable.
ISBN: 1903582644
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