Cops’ hi-tech mob snoops
Garda increase surveillance of gangs
am also satisfied that without the powers given under the Act that a significant amount of criminal activity could not be detected.” The judge said surveillance work was carried out by gardai “at considerable personal risk”. Hired Estonian hitman Imre Arakas, 59, was placed under Garda surveillance for two days before his arrest last year. The Kinahan cartel hired assassin, who is awaiting sentence, admitted conspiring to murder James Gately who has links to the Hutch criminal gang. In a separate case, two contract killers for the Kinahan cartel were overheard on tape plotting to kill a gangland rival. Gary Gleeson, 34, and Stephen Dunne, 39, were hired to murder Michael Frazer. The would-be assassins were both handed 12-year prison sentences. news@irishmirror.ie Imre Arakas