MOB BAGMAN SEEKS 'EXPERT WITNESS' OVER CAB SEIZURE

A CONVICTED Kinahan bagman fighting to stave off the Criminal Assets Bureau from seizing his home has pleaded that he can't get the assistance of a quantity surveyor yet as part of his case.

- BY NICOLA DONNELLY

Patrick Lawlor and his wife Leonie are contesting the CAB case against them in which their house on Collins Avenue West in Dublin is being targeted.

Lawlor was one of three men jailed for seven years in October 2022 following an investigation by the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau into a major transnational organised crime gang that took in more than €12million in 2019 and spent €98,000 on encrypted phones in the same year.

It was run by George Mitchell, the Dublin criminal known as “the Penguin”, who left the country 25 years ago and was since targeted by the CAB, which seized almost three-quarters of a million euro from him.