Men in court on €2m money launder rap
Pair charged over cash seizures
Cloverhill Prison to appear again in court next Monday.
Mr Cummings told Wexford District Court his client is unemployed and Joyce signed a statement of means while sitting in the dock.
Judge Haughton approved application for legal aid.
Glen Power, 29, was charged with two counts of money laundering. He his applied for bail, but was refused after gardai objected.
The court heard Power, with an address in Ballyfermot, West Dublin, was stopped in Wexford town on Saturday morning and €500,000 was found in the car he was driving.
Cops swooped as he was allegedly about to hand over the cash at a meeting point. Detective Fiona Connaughton of
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the Drugs And Organised Crime Bureau told the court the search was part of an intelligence-led operation.
She said: “At approximately 10.42am he was observed at a car park near an industrial unit for a handover to a third party.”
It was claimed a further €500,000 was found in a bag in the attic during a follow-up search of Power’s house.
The detective objected to bail on the grounds of the gravity of the offence and that he posed a flight risk.
She added that gardai believe the cash was going to be sent abroad and the alleged offence was connected to the importation of illegal drugs.
Power’s family and partner watched from the public gallery, while he stood in the dock dressed in a grey tracksuit.
Defence solicitor Tracey Horan made a bail application on behalf of her client.
Judge Haughton refused bail and Power was remanded in custody to Cloverhill Prison to appear in court on Friday.
Power was granted legal aid.
We believe the serious nature of the offence means he is a flight risk DET FIONA CONNAUGHTON