Woman quizzed over money laundering

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Sunday Times
Enda Leahy and Dearbhail McDonald



GARDAI investigating a suspected IRA money-laundering operation have released without charge a woman they suspect masterminded attempts to launder money in Bulgaria.

The 56-year-old businesswoman was released without charge on Friday night after being questioned for 24 hours in Balbriggan garda station, north Dublin. A file is now being prepared for the DPP.
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The house was formerly occupied by Cathy Armstrong, the business partner of Ted Cunningham, a Cork financier who was arrested after more than €2m in cash was discovered in their home earlier this month.

The woman, who is a business associate of Phil Flynn, the former head of the government’s decentralisation implementation group, led a seven-strong delegation, including Flynn and Cunningham, to Bulgaria last month. She set up a meeting for the Irish party with Ilia Lingorski, Bulgaria’s deputy finance minister. The meeting, held in a restaurant in Sofia, was monitored by agents from the Bulgarian National Security Service.

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1. a successful female business owner

she must be up to something illegal.