The creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau is under the microscope.
The creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau in the wake of public outcry over the murders of journalist Veronica Guerin and Garda Jerry McCabe will be examined in a new documentary that airs this week.
Following Guerin's assassination in 1996, the Oireachtas passed the Proceeds of Crime Bill.
By October of that year, the Criminal Assets Bureau was fully operational.
Virgin Media One will air part one of the two-part documentary – entitled The Criminal Assets Bureau – this Wednesday (23 March) at 9pm.
The programme will focus on the CAB's first 25 years and how the agency first set about dismantling criminal empires and forcing prominent criminals to flee the country.
Part one looks at the "unprecedented" public reaction to the murders of Jerry McCabe and Veronica Guerin, and how politicians from all parties put aside their differences in order to form the CAB and tackle organised crime in Ireland.
To date, the CAB has successfully seized over €194 million from criminals.
Ruairi Quinn and Nora Owen will be among the talking heads in the documentary, while the show also promises viewers never-before-seen access to the inner-workings of the Criminal Assets Bureau.
Part one of the documentary airs on Virgin Media One on Wednesday – 23 March – at 9pm.
Featured Image of Veronica Guerin via Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie
