Tipperary featured strongly in activity by the Criminal Assets Bureau last year.
The bureau handed more than €5.5 million back to the Exchequer last year including over €4 million in revenue settlements, while €1.1 million was from the proceeds of crime.
Seven houses were confiscated – including one in Tipperary Town from a Chinese cannabis dealing gang.
Money laundering through the motor trade was also a focus for CAB in 2021 – it confiscated 84 cars seized from a car dealership in Co Tipperary
The Bureau is investigating almost 18-hundred targets, including 27 individuals or crime gangs not resident in Ireland.
