CAB officers targeted four residential properties and a business premises where they seized a 201 Volvo XC90 and financial documents.
“It is not just Sweden that this gang have their tentacles, intelligence indicates that they are also known to law enforcement in the United States and Canada as well as a number of EU states,” the source said.
The gang operates nationwide and overseas by posing as tradesmen and quoting a good price for jobs ranging from laying tarmac to cleaning gutters.
Because of their international “tarmac scams”, the gang whose base is a Co Tipperary town, have been compared to the infamous Rathkeale Rovers gang but gardaí say there are “no major links” between them and the Limerick gang.
The target of the first significant raids by the Criminal Assets Bureau in 2021 are a family-based gang who have been described as a ‘mini Rathkeale Rovers crew’ whose criminal base in the southeast has “grown significantly” in recent times.
Senior sources say the gang has made “tens of thousands of euro” from tarmac scams across Europe, the US and Canada and have been laundering the cash as well as significant money for one of the biggest drug dealing gangs based in the region.
Gardaí announced that CAB had frozen 16 bank accounts containing €540,000 in total, following search operations in Tipperary and Kilkenny.
The target of the first significant raids by the Criminal Assets Bureau in 2021 are a family-based gang who have been described as a ‘mini Rathkeale Rovers crew’ whose criminal base in the southeast has “grown significantly” in recent times.