Criminal Assets Bureau: How to Pursue Proceeds of Crime

Retired Garda Detective Chief Superintendent Pat Byrne discusses the Criminal Assets Bureau from his experience as the agency's first Detective Inspector and later as its Chief Bureau Officer.Established in 1996, CAB is a multi-agency body tasked with tackling proceeds of crime, unpaid taxes and fraudulently obtained welfare payments. Over the past 30 years, CAB has returned hundreds of millions of euro to the state.Pat considers the foundation of CAB, inter-agency collaboration and how the Bureau has developed in the decades since its establishment.Credits: RTE Archives.Further Reading:https://www.cab.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CAB-Annual-Report-2024-Reduced-Size.pdfhttps://ww2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/3688408c-450b-4914-83e0-33e721211054/2001_IESC_82_1.pdf/pdf#view=fitHhttps://www.dsps.unict.it/sites/default/files/Civil%20forfeiture%20in%20Ireland%20-%202%20decades.pdfhttps://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-07-02/22/