Senior Kinahan lieutenant, wife & mistress laundered €1.3m in crime cash, court hears

Defendant

Charges: concealing cash to the value of €268,940 in the attic of The Dairy, Rathasker Road, Naas, Co Kildare, on January 24, 2017; two crime cash laundering offences; 36 non-scheduled offences and Ms Lukacs was charged with 16 non-scheduled offences; concealing or disguising the true nature or source of money credited to a Permanent TSB Account on various dates between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014, within the State, knowing or believing or being reckless as to whether the property, in the names of Declan Brady and Deirdre Brady, was the proceeds of criminal conduct; five more money laundering offences (Admitted)

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: Mr Justice Tony Hunt, presiding, sitting with Judge Gerard Griffin and Judge David McHugh, remanded Brady in custody until July 30, when he will be sentenced.

Defendant

Charges: concealing cash to the value of €268,940 in the attic of The Dairy, Rathasker Road, Naas, Co Kildare, on January 24, 2017; two crime cash laundering offences; 36 non-scheduled offences and Ms Lukacs was charged with 16 non-scheduled offences; concealing or disguising the true nature or source of money credited to a Permanent TSB Account on various dates between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014, within the State, knowing or believing or being reckless as to whether the property, in the names of Declan Brady and Deirdre Brady, was the proceeds of criminal conduct; five more money laundering offences (Admitted)

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: The non-jury court heard during today's sentence hearing that Brady (55), who is known as "Mr Nobody", had laundered €318,654 in crime cash through multiple bank accounts, his wife Deirdre Brady (53) had laundered €770,499 and another woman Erika Lukacs (37), who was described today as Brady's "mistress", had laundered €196,864. In July 2019 Brady, who was tasked by senior criminal figures abroad to supervise the weapons cache, was sentenced to 11-and-a-half years imprisonment after pleading guilty to possession of the weapons.; Mr Justice Tony Hunt, presiding, sitting with Judge Gerard Griffin and Judge David McHugh, remanded Brady in custody until July

Defendant

Charges: concealing cash to the value of €268,940 in the attic of The Dairy, Rathasker Road, Naas, Co Kildare, on January 24, 2017; two crime cash laundering offences; 36 non-scheduled offences and Ms Lukacs was charged with 16 non-scheduled offences; concealing or disguising the true nature or source of money credited to a Permanent TSB Account on various dates between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014, within the State, knowing or believing or being reckless as to whether the property, in the names of Declan Brady and Deirdre Brady, was the proceeds of criminal conduct; five more money laundering offences (Admitted)

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: The non-jury court heard during today's sentence hearing that Brady (55), who is known as "Mr Nobody", had laundered €318,654 in crime cash through multiple bank accounts, his wife Deirdre Brady (53) had laundered €770,499 and another woman Erika Lukacs (37), who was described today as Brady's "mistress", had laundered €196,864. In July 2019 Brady, who was tasked by senior criminal figures abroad to supervise the weapons cache, was sentenced to 11-and-a-half years imprisonment after pleading guilty to possession of the weapons.

Defendant

Charges: concealing cash to the value of €268,940 in the attic of The Dairy, Rathasker Road, Naas, Co Kildare, on January 24, 2017; two crime cash laundering offences; 36 non-scheduled offences and Ms Lukacs was charged with 16 non-scheduled offences; concealing or disguising the true nature or source of money credited to a Permanent TSB Account on various dates between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014, within the State, knowing or believing or being reckless as to whether the property, in the names of Declan Brady and Deirdre Brady, was the proceeds of criminal conduct; five more money laundering offences (Admitted)

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: Mr Justice Tony Hunt, presiding, sitting with Judge Gerard Griffin and Judge David McHugh, remanded Brady in custody until July 30, when he will be sentenced.