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A suspect in a coke import operation in Australia was charged today with conspiracy to launder € 500,000.
Francis Fennell, 31, of Balcurris Gardens, Ballymun, Dublin, was arrested at Dublin Airport yesterday after getting off a flight from Kaunas, Lithuania.
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He was indicted in the Dublin District Court for conspiring with others to bring the proceeds of crime to Ireland from May 22, 2012 to June 1, 2016.
Sergeant Ronan McMorrow of the Garda’s Office of Drugs and Organized Crime said Fennell did not respond when he was charged.
He said the case related to a “multi-jurisdictional investigation into the alleged importation of cocaine from Ireland to Australia and New Zealand.”
In objecting to bail, the police officer said Fennell faced 14 years if convicted. He said Fennell had never worked in Ireland and had no history of employment in Australia and New Zealand.
But despite this, from 2015 to 2019, he made several trips to Ibiza and also visited Amsterdam, Dubai, Ethopia, Colombia, Berlin, Malaga, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Sergeant McMorrow said 10 high-purity cocaine imports were identified.
Cocaine in Oz and NZ is valued four times more than in Ireland.
The proceeds were sent to Ireland from a New Zealand bank account and via 50 Western Union cash transfers.
Fennell and two named brothers are alleged to have opened a Kiwi account with a deposit of NZ $ 200,000 (€ 111,000).
Fennell is alleged to have attempted to send € 500,000 to a bank account here.
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Sergeant McMorrow said Fennell is alleged to have been involved in “every facet of the operation,” from arranging flights for couriers to internally concealing cocaine in them.
Fennell’s Oisin Clarke BL said it was likely 2023 before there was a trial.
Judge Bryan Smyth granted bail to appear in Cloverhill District Court on Friday.
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