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Three are arrested in Malaga

January 10, 2015 by admin News 0 comments

Three Dundalk residents are believed to be among five Irish nationals, a Norwegian and a Spanish lawyer arrested in what is understood to be a major Spanish police operation against tobacco smuggling linked to south Armagh, as well as alleged money laundering.he arrests are understood to include Mountpleasant husband and wife, Donna Maguire and Leonard ‘Bap’ Hardy, who were given prison sentences in Holland and Germany for their parts in IRA attacks in Europe in the late 1980s.

 

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/argus/news/three-are-arrested-in-malaga-30883258.html

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