Murphy’s assets frozen
Following the raids at the start of the month in Monaghan and Armagh, RTÉ reports that the High Court has granted orders freezing the assets seized in the searches, the estimate value of the property and cash is €900,000 and the court has appointed the legal officer of the CAB as receiver. From RTÉ – “The orders were made against Thomas Murphy, his brothers Francis and Patrick, and ACE Oils, which CAB says is a consortium owned and controlled by the Murphy group. CAB officers served the High Court documents at the Murphy addresses this morning.” Whether Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams will be revising his opinion of Thomas Murphy is currently unknown.. Although it’s worth pointing out that no charges have emerged yet. Update It’s not included in the RTÉ report but UTV claim Thomas Murphy’s house is covered by the court orders More over the foldThe BBC report restricts the court orders to cash and cheques seized during the searches, but values them at over €1million -
The order was made under the Proceeds of Crime Act against Mr Murphy, his brothers Patrick and Francis and Ace Oils Ltd.
The company has a registered office at Ballybinaby, Hackballscross in County Louth.
And has more details on the properties searched, and the Crimnal Assets Bureau investigation -
The head of the Criminal Assets Bureau, Detective Chief Superintendent Felix McKenna, said in documents supplied to the court that the cash and cheques were found in black plastic bags in a cattle shed owned by Patrick Murphy adjacent to his residence.
Access to the shed was through a gate on a road on the Northern Ireland side of the border which opened out on to a farm complex owned by the Murphys, the court heard.
Access from the southern side of the border was through a field registered in the name of Patrick Murphy’s wife, Rosemary, the judge was told.
Detective Chief Supt McKenna said in the documents that the CAB had been investigating the Murphys “for some considerable time”, and that Tom, Frank and Patrick Murphy had for the past 20 years been involved in the oil distribution industry and oil smuggling and money laundering activities.
posted by Kathy C
Hi all,
Comrade Stalin, Sure…. There are some in Sinn Fein who are willing to do anything and give up anything to get themselves back in power. And there are others in Sinn Fein who don’t agree with this approach. Many say that Sinn Fein and the IRA are the same just different sides of the same coin…but this isn’t the case. The first cease fire that gerry adams negotiated was broken by canary wharf and many reported due to adam’s response…he didn’t know anything about it. The IRA was unhappy with the ceasefire and john major. During the second cease fire…Sinn Fein was able to ensure that the IRA couldn’t break this cease fire because they negioted away…not partitian…but they negotiated away their biggest threat to politica power…the IRA.
But that has been a miscalculation by some in Sinn Fein. Many equate gerry adams to DeValera and how to ensure political superiority over other republicans…is to due away with the IRA.
Personally, until there is unification I don’t think the IRA will ever go away….they might change their tactics…but they won’t go away.
hope this clarifies the poem…
common sense
If Tomas Murphy was to account for every single penny. Would you be happy , somehow i don’t think so.
As a matter of fact, i could see you and the boys (with rope in hand) riding out to the Slab ranch for a bit of old northern justice.
Rory…Don’t matter whether one beat the other..still not desperately good people
oh yeah Rory..i remember Mao’s Chinese brigades fighting the Germans..forgot totally..and before you mention the Japanese in China, the Chinese did very little of that alone..if the Western countries weren’t getting the better of the Japanese elsewhere the Chinese were still going to be under the Japanese yoke.
Kathy C
I just read your poem.
Do you not think Ireland has suffered enough?
Slab the Don O’Murphy is going to find out that it isn’t only political careers that end in failure.
Wonder how he feels about the peace process now and the two catholic choirboys that his marxist mate used to talk about with such disdain.
Colin
So I have to wonder at the almost total lack of scrutiny of these and other such nefarious activities in these blogs…Do you reckon you could delve into this a little more, Peter, in your next blog. Baiting the like of has-beens like Slab Murphy is a little old by now, don’t you think? Or is this just another crank forum for extreme right-wing paddy-bashers and holier-than-thou knee-jerk puritan bigot?
A couple of points to note.
As one of those paddys, I’ll blog whatever I think is important to note at any given time, regardless of how it may appear to you.
I also stand by everything I have blogged.
And you’d be advised to check through the readily available archives on this site before making accusations of bias that can’t be substantiated.
So can we hope to see some treatment of the highly relevant and current issues I raised vis a vis the loyalist murder gangs and their political apologists in the DUP/UDP/PUP sometime in the near future then, Peter? I’m all for free speech — that’s the purpose of these blogs: to air our views, right? But I’m very interested in the notion of bias, and I can’t help but note that you appear to be very interested in casting the likes of Gerry Adams and slab Murphy and all the other odious Shinners in a very negative light, yet at the same time you seem to be almost totally blind to the virulent racist and sectarian nature of loyalist/state sponsored terrorism. So don’t worry about advising on anything: I do accuse you of bias — that much seems patently obvious to me — but just like you reserve the right to blog your beliefs at will, please recognize that I also retain the right to challenge such views if I personally disagree. It’s called free speech. Now, any chance of something “noteworthy” such as the recent attempted sectarian murder of a Catholic taxi driver by loyalists in Belfast, the freeing of bling brigadier ‘The Egyptian’, or the continued UDA-orchestrated racist attacks on migrant workers and their terrified wives and children…or are these daily facts of life in Northern Ireland simply not important enough to be of ‘note’. Or does it denote a bias on your behalf? Fair enought if it does — each to their own — I just think you should recognize that your political focus is overtly one-sided, and not above reproach.
Kathy, the analogy with Dev might apply if the IRA was still actually engaged in “political” violence. The allegations being made against Slab are not political violence, but criminality. Is fuel smuggling right ? Can people who dump environmentally damaging corrosive chemicals in the lush countryside really be considered patriots ?
Posted by Kathy C
Hi all,
Tafkabo,thanks…you had me chucking ;o)
Comrade Stalin, Who do you consider a patriot? But what I find interesting…is supposedly england wanted the IRA to disarm and disband and “IF” and I repeate “IF” Mr. Murphy was/is one of the leaders of the PIRA then the organization took his order to disarm and disband. Now for england to go after Mr. Murphy with the intent to destroy him and maybe even jail him….shows that england doesn’t deal fairly.and I’m sure it will come back on england with their Muslims. How so?
On the world stage, I thought it was not a smart move for england because they are having such a difficult time with their muslim population and those muslims who are looking to destroy england. The gov’t has given the signal that when someone or group negotiates with england to end a conflict…england will then turn to destroy the one(s) who put the arms beyond use. England always tries to appear to be sooooo very diplomatic and this was a bad move. It had nothing to do with the enviorment and everything to do with rubbing PIRA’s nose in the ground….
Kathy C: shows that england doesn’t deal fairly
Hmm. I had a quick look through the GFA, and I tried to recall the subsequent deals. They *do* refer to decommissioning, and they don’t offer a licence to carry on illegal activity. Even the terms of the IRA note last year seemed to suggest there was no acceptable activity for the IRA to carry out any more other than purely political activity. So (caveat e.t.c. e.t.c.) it seems that fuel laundering breaks all the rules agreed by everyone. There is no immunity. And my guess is that it won’t be part of the defence, either.
Maybe Gerry should have explained the deal to Slab?
posted by Kathy C
Hi all,
Reader, All Sinn Fein had to do by the terms of the GFA was to use it’s influence to get decomissioning. The GFA is an agreement accepted and voted upon by the people of the north of Ireland. PIRA was not bound by the terms of the agreement. PIRA did however decom in their words to help the peace process….and if we are to believe what is written in the press that Mr. Murphy was on the PIRA army council and the army council majority voted to decom…then england should be beholden to the PIRA army council. And this is how they show their gratitude to PIRA and Mr. Murphy…
Let’s go back to the world scene….England is facing militant suicide bombers who want to use nuclear weapons against it. England already last year was hit by suicide Muslim extremist who didin’t use semtex or guns…but store bought things that made huge bombs… Now, the Muslim suicide bomber campaign shows no signs of stopping anytime soon…. and england has signaled to these groups, by their action to Mr. Murphy, that if they negotiate to end their campaign and make deals with england…england will double deal and turn on those who tried to stop the campaign.
What I was saying, in the zeal to get Mr. Murphy…england demoed to the Musliim suicide bombers that england can’t be trusted in negotiations…and that will come back on england in the end. ANd that is a far bigger problem for england down the road than getting Murphy. If I was england I would not pursue the case against Murphy and leave him alone that way if any in Al-Quada or other groups want to come to england and try to end the campaign it can be accomplished. As it stands now the Muslims see england can’t be trusted and you don’t want that when you want to stop suicide bombers attacking your land. I think england was really very short sighted.
Kathy_C: then england should be beholden to the PIRA army council
Wrong. The GFA was supported in referenda north and south – the PIRA owed decommissioning to the Irish people. In my view, no-one owes the IRA anything. (And if the UDA does the same, I’ll say the same about them too).
I don’t see why you think there was any deal that allowed people to smuggle and launder fuel. After all – the early release scheme for murders and mass-murderers was written down and passed through Parliament – why wouldn’t they do the same for criminality? (The 2005 “Get Out Of Jail Free Card for Registered Provos” Act)