When Irish police tackled a possible I.R.A. money laundering operation last week, they had no idea that their suspects had been taking things so literally. But the raids in Cork and Dublin yielded dirty money millions of British pounds stashed in compost bins and wads of euros stuffed into a box of detergent.
Authorities suspect that the recovered cash may be connected to the theft of $50 million from a Belfast bank in December a robbery that officials blamed on the I.R.A., and that helped to kill the latest...
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