Gardai investigating the activities of an international fraud gang operating in the Republic have made five arrests and carried out searches in three counties after intelligence-led searches under Operation Boxplot.
Last year gardaà began investigating a group of men in the north Cork area on suspicion they were part of a coalition of criminals targeting businesses in Ireland and abroad in invoice redirect scams.
Detectives from the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau came into information about the suspects that linked them a wider group of criminals based in Ireland who were already under investigation under Operation Skein for the same alleged crimes.