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Previously on Hot Money.

We discovered how Dubai became the perfect place for the super cartel to come together.

This time, I want to take you back to Dublin, to Lower Bagot Street.

It's a smart neighbourhood close to the city centre filled with grand Georgian houses.

It's April 2016, an Irish detectives have received a tip-off.

One of the apartments on the street is a Kinnahann Cartel safe house.

But when they get there, they find someone else, a guy with a big belly speaking broken

English. He's got some designer shoes, a bunch

of fancy watches, and several IDs, each with a different name. You know, here's this guy

who had a number of identities. Shamus Boland, chief superintendent in the Irish police.

He was arrested for possession of false documents and there was no certainty about his identity at all.

It's following his arrest and us issuing an assistance request across Europe that within a number of hours, the Dutch police were in touch with us and they

identified them from the photographs and fingerprints and senior Dutch police officers boarded

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