A “credible” offer has been made to purchase the once luxury home that was seized from crime boss Liam Byrne.
The Irish Mirror has learned that an offer was made in recent weeks to buy the home, which has been vacant since it was seized from Byrne by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) back in 2019.
Sources say the offer was accepted by a third party agent and it is now in the final stages of consideration by members of the CAB itself - which is understood to be overseeing the sale.
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CAB are understood to be examining the offer which comes over two years after the house went on sale in May 2021 - with an asking price of E400,000. Since then it has lain idle, with boarded-up windows and doors and surrounded by overgrown grass.
At one point the home, which had a panic room, gym and a jacuzzi was estimated to be worth well over E1M - due to the amount of work gang boss Liam had put into it with his ill-gotten gains.
Asked for comment on the sale of the property the garda press office said: “Neither the Criminal Assets Bureau or An Garda Síochána has a comment on the sale of this property. The sale of the property is currently a matter for the 3rd party agent.”
In the past there have been calls for the home to be bought by the local council - and for it to be used for social housing purposes amidst the housing crisis.
Mobster Liam Byrne lost his battle against the CAB in 2019 - and it seized the home, which is located close to the home of his parents Sadie and James Byrne.
The CAB, in its High Court proceedings against the Byrne Organised Crime Group (BOCG) named Liam as its leader, and also named several individuals as the beneficiaries of the group.
Those named in the proceedings included Byrne and his fiancee, Simoan McEnroe; his first cousin, Liam Roe; his associate, Sean McGovern; McGovern's partner, Anita Freeman; another associate, Darren Foster and his wife, Jennifer; Byrne's sister, Maria; David Byrne's partner, Kelly Quinn, and his parents, Sadie and James Byrne.
The High Court ruled that assets worth €2.7m - cars, jewelry, cash and the Raleigh Square home seized by CAB - were the proceeds of crime. Byrne, Roe, McGovern and Foster were "all senior members" of the crime group, the CAB added.
Byrne, who operates out of Birmingham in the UK, has been elevated to Kinahan’s number two man, after his brother-in-law Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh (53) was jailed for 21 years for conspiring to import E36M worth of drugs.
Liam Byrne’s brother David was shot dead at the Regency Hotel attack in Dublin in February 2016 - a murder which dramatically escalated the Kinahan Hutch feud. David Byrne’s murder was followed by a campaign of bloody revenge by the Kinahan cartel - which struck back just three days later with the murder of taxi driver Eddie Hutch.
The cartel went on to murder 15 more men in a war which has claimed 18 lives. As part of their investigations CAB investigators claimed Byrne was at the “very top tier” of organised crime in Ireland. In submissions to the High Court, CAB outlined his links to Christy ‘Dapper Don’ Kinahan’s cartel.
It claimed: “The target of this investigation is the Liam Byrne Organised Crime Group. This group is aligned to the Kinahan Organised Crime Group and is involved in the importation for sale and supply of controlled drugs into this jurisdiction.
“The investigation has uncovered a system of money laundering used by this group to hide the beneficial ownership of the various assets in their possession. The main target of this investigation, Liam Byrne, is a close and trusted associate and lieutenant of Daniel Kinahan.
"The KOCG is an international gang involved in the importation and controlled distribution of drugs into this jurisdiction, the UK and mainland Europe. It has bases in Spain, the UK, Netherlands and Dubai.
“Liam Byrne and Sean McGovern are at the very top tier of this group and are regularly spotted in the company of Daniel and [his brother] Christopher Kinahan.”
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