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Nicola-Tallant-Crime.Pdf PLUS SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2015 e2.45 SPEND €50 AND ENJOY OFF YOUR LIDL SHOP SEE €10 VOUCHER PAGE 2 FIRST PIC GILNICOLA TALILLANTGANEXCLUSIVE KEANE GETAWAY MOB BOSS THE STING CHRISTY BACK HOME AFTER HIT: PAGES 18&19 lIreland’s first family of IRELAND’S crime in bid to flog their WORLD CUP €450k Spanish boozer for CHEER l SEE SPORT under-the-counter cash...to DEAL: Treacy Gilligan tried undercover team to flog her pub to our undercover team DRUG LORD’S BID TO GET BACK IN THE GAME: PAGES 10,11,12&13 10 July 26, 2015 GILLIGANTHE STING GILLIGANS’ UNDERCOVER: Treacy Gilligan is filmed by our team as she tries to sell €450K boozer in sun LAST-CHANCE LOANS: Banks set to swoop on SALOON Alicante pub THE DAUGHTER of Ireland’s former godfather of crime, Treacy Gilligan, tried to Ireland’s first family of crime desperate to get back flog an undercover Sunday World team her Spanish pub for ‘black money’ after we in the game as they try to flog pub to ‘Russian mafia’ set her up with two prospec- tive Russian mafia buyers. By NICOLA TALLANT in Alicante, Spain The family are also fighting orders is the rightful owner of the entire While she insisted that The against Jessbrook House in Enfield, Jessbrook complex. Judges Chambers pub in Ali- the Gilligan family existed in 1996 ‘black money’ – cash under the table the bungalow home where Geraldine The family have racked up more cante is hers and has nothing and over €15m passed through them. – in exchange for the pub Gilligan lives and which is attached than €20million in legal fees in a to do with her father John, we Most of the money was withdrawn l Said she WANTED another to the large equestrian centre, the mammoth, two-decade battle to hang in July 1996 – a month after the €300k for a big villa she is trying to former family home at Corduff Av- on to their properties, with the tab understand he is hoping for a enue in Blanchardstown, Dublin, brutal assassination of journalist flog nearby. She also told us that she for their lawyers being picked up by cut of the sale so he can get owns another house near Torrevieja and two houses in Lucan, owned by the hard-working taxpayer. Veronica Guerin by the Gilligan mob. Treacy and her brother Darren. back in the drugs business. All four Gilligans – John and Ger- on the Costa Blanca. “I’m still fighting for that arena Just two years ago Treacy filed aldine, daughter Treacy and son The Gilligans are desperate to sell Ludicrous over there,” Geraldine told the an affidavit in the Supreme Court Darren – have been granted free the pub for dirty money before the Sunday World last January. claiming she makes just €200 a week legal aid, with the taxpayer footing banks swoop for a €250,000 loan The family have argued that Jess- “I’m fighting for everything. It was from the watering hole, their court challenges against the owed on it. Sources say that John is brook House and Willsbrook View, taken off me illegally. They didn’t She said she and her daughter Criminal Assets Bureau. finally hoping to lay his hands on the a large three-bed bought for Treacy, go through the court rules and I am would be homeless if the State didn’t cash so he can get back in the game. are family homes. sure that the Supreme Court will give her back her home in Lucan, Boasted The family are due up in the Supreme Among the ludicrous claims they give me justice. which had been seized by the CAB. Court tomorrow where they will contin- have put before the courts are that “I’m still in this house and I am going She is not the only Gilligan to have But when she met our undercover ue to fight an epic 17-year battle with none of the assets were bought by the to stay here until they drag me out in cried poverty under oath. Her moth- team, Treacy was far more bling than the CAB about the proceeds of crime. proceeds of crime, but were instead a box. I’m sure a lot of people would er Geraldine told a court in 2013 that she has previously claimed to be. Jessbrook Equestrian Centre was the result of John Gilligan’s Midas be delighted to hear that, but I’m here she survives on weekly Jobseeker’s l She BOASTED that she can pull sold for a snip at €500,000, but is now touch on the horses. every day, every day, every day. Allowance of €186. €3,000 a month renting the pub out, back on the market with a new name, Earlier this year, Geraldine told us “This has nothing to do with the Dundalk District Court heard up but says doesn’t need the hassle; Emerald International Equestrian she will “be taken out of her home in proceeds of crime – that’s not the to 16 bank accounts in the names of l OFFERED to take €300k in Centre. a box” and she still insists that she point. The point is that the public WORLD IS WATCHING July 26, 2015 11 HIGH LIFE: Gilligans, Brian Meehan, Peter Mitchell and (right) Jessbrook 4G Smartphones from FREE with FREE 4G & All You Can Eat Data* BROKE: Gilligan needs cash to rebuild empire coffers have lost out big time on this meticulous in distancing himself thing – it’s the public that should from assets. However, officers be- have made millions.” lieve Judge bought land and the pub Gilligan and his gang imported under orders from ‘Factory’ John. a staggering €60million worth of He was a regular visitor to Gilli- HTC One M8s cannabis into Ireland in a two-year gan, while he was in Belmarsh jail period and he went on a lavish spend- awaiting extradition for the murder FREE ing spree, building up an impressive of Veronica Guerin. It was there, property portfolio. officers believe, that he gave Judge Samsung Galaxy S5 iPhone 5C 8GB Senior CAB officers first identified his access to foreign accounts holding 349 FREE Irish assets, but then turned to Spain, millions in drug money. where they believe he purchased Gilligan Snr has always denied a pub, five warehouses, two he has anything to do with the boats, six houses, two cars and family’s assets in Spain. a construction firm. He claimed: “My ex-wife and Investigations found that my daughter are running a all had been placed in the bar somewhere in Spain. I names of key associates. don’t know where exactly, Top of the CAB’s list was the as I have never been to the Judges Chambers, which country in my life, but I was initially bought by think it is 50 minutes out- Liam Judge – a bagman side Alicante. It is a nice for Gilligan from Allen- pub, run honestly.” wood in Co. Kildare. But like everything For just f40.66 a month He was a lover of in the life of Ireland’s Treacy and died of most hated crime fam- a heart attack in ily, officers believe the Visit your local 3Store or Three.ie 2004. The pub claims are simply part of transferred a tapestry of lies. to Gilligan’s Over the years sources daughter say that the Gilligan’s *Subject to 24 month term and direct debit on Classic Flex Max 350. 4G promotion despite no FIGHT: extravagant lifestyle has provides access to the 4G network only and does not include any additional data official will whittled away a lot of the allowance. 4G access free for subscribing customers until 30/06/16. Subject to being left. Geraldine nest egg he believed he compatible device, coverage & software update. All you can eat data available on Gilligan was Gilligan had invested in Spain. Flex Max plans. Three reserves the right to limit service where usage exceeds 15GB in a billing cycle and other users are adversely affected. See three.ie. YOU CAN PAY IN ‘BLACK MONEY’: SEE PAGES 12 & 13 12 July 26, 2015 GILLIGANTHE STING By NICOLA TALLANT IT’S 6pm and under the searing Spanish sun we are finally ready to attempt a ‘sting’ on what was The price is once the first family of Irish crime. We are gathered in Alicante, in the ‘ heart of the Costa Blanca, and not far from the pub once identified by the Criminal Assets Bureau as the jewel in drug lord John Gilligan’s crown. The Judges Chambers is up for sale and our sources say that the Gilligans are so desperate for money they are hoping to do a cash deal with Russian or Eastern European criminals on the Costa. It’s known out here as ‘black money’ – suit- €450k...the cases of cash with no questions asked. In just two years, ‘Factory’ John’s gang imported €60million worth of cannabis into Ireland, but now, sources say, the family are on their knees. In a last throw of the dice they are trying to offload the remains of their empire for cash, as Gilligan desperately attempts to get back in the game and protect himself from the hitmen who have twice tried to kill him since his release from jail. We pick up a Spanish mobile phone and our mortgage is men, who are posing as interested Russian mafia buyers, dial a number which we are told will get us straight to the heart of the paranoid Gilligan clan.
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