For years Ireland was a “thieves paradise”. For years gangsters were “getting away with murder”. Then in June 1996 they went too far. The murders of Detective Jerry McCabe and Journalist Veronica Guerin changed everything. The public demanded action and for once the politicians listened. The result was the creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau.

This series tells the story of how the tables were turned on the drug barons, the robbers and the terrorists.

In Dirty Money, Paul Williams reveals how a dedicated team of legal experts, police, revenue, and welfare officers targeted the loots of Ireland’s richest criminals and seized hundreds of millions of Euro worth of ill- gotten gains.