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Tue, November 30 2010
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Yet Another Tiger Kidnapping Attempt
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Boy (14) handcuffed with dad in failed tiger kidnap
GARDAI had to use bolt cutters to rescue a 14-year-old boy who was handcuffed with his father during a failed tiger kidnap attempt.
Last night, detectives were hunting up to seven members of the armed gang involved in the raid in Dublin.
Their target was a senior manager of the major security firm Chubb Ireland and the gang had intended to take some of his family captive while forcing the man to hand over a large amount of cash from his company's vaults.
Last night, the man, his wife and three children, ranging from 14 to five years, were recovering from the traumatic experience in which one of the raiders put a gun to the target's head and threatened all of the family.
Their ordeal began at 6.20pm on Sunday when two men banged on the front door of their home at Windmill Crescent in the south Dublin suburb of Crumlin.
Irish Independent
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Tue, November 30 2010
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Sun, November 28 2010
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Another Tiger Kidnapping at Brinks
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Gang holds couple as cash stolen from Brinks Allied 5th. November 2010
At least three armed men forced their way into the couple's home at around 9pm in Monasterboice, Co Louth, last night and held them overnight.
At 6am today, the woman was taken from her house in a silver Mercedes 02 D 43757. Her husband was instructed to obtain a sum of money from Brinks Allied, Clonshaugh, and await instructions.
This morning, gardaí became aware of the incident and mounted a response involving both local and national units.
A sum of money, reported to be €170,000, was handed over to the armed gang, who wore dark overalls and balaclavas. At about 10am, the wife of the official was released from the rear of a derelict house on Howth Road.
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Sun, November 28 2010
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Thu, September 02 2010
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Yet Another Tiger Kidnapping
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Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:18
A bank official who works at the AIB branch in Clondalkin Village and his wife were held hostage and the man was forced to hand over a large sum of money to a criminal gang.
Detectives believe that three men were involved.
They were armed with a shot gun and may have escaped with as much as €300,000 in cash.
RTE News CPY
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Thu, September 02 2010
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Wed, July 28 2010
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Gardai expect no let-up in Tiger Kidnapping
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Sunday Independent
By Jim Cusack
Sunday July 25 2010
Gardai and security experts expect no let-up in tiger kidnappings as 'protocols' put in place to try and reduce risk and stop the robbers fail to prevent terrorised people from putting their families before their employer's cash.
The majority of the main tiger raid gangs in Ireland are on holiday in Spain, giving some relief to the gardai and staff of banks and cash handling companies. However, the guards firmly believe that on their return the gangs intend going back to their work of stalking the vulnerable families of people working in businesses that handle large amounts of cash. There was a recent alert when a leading member of one of the gangs returned from Spain unexpectedly but it appears to have been only for family reasons.
The gangs, responsible for some of the most cruel kidnappings in recent years, have been examining new security systems and protocols put in place by banks and security companies, testing their effectiveness and working out new strategies.
Gardai now believe that their new strategy will be to target a wider range of businesses. Banks, and the Bank of Ireland in particular, have reduced the amount of cash being held in branches. Businesses that need large amounts of cash are no longer collecting the money in banks but having it delivered by security companies.
This, gardai say, has lifted some of the threat to bank staff but increased the threat to staff of the cash delivery companies.
Protocols announced last November by the Minister for Justice, the Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy and the banks were supposed to have stopped the kidnap-robberies, but they continued through the first half of the year and gardai are certain that more are planned.
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Wed, July 28 2010
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Wed, July 28 2010
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AIB Tiger Kidnapping
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Arrest over Dublin tiger-kidnap
Thursday, 22 July 2010
A man in his 20s has been arrested over a tiger-kidnap
A man in his 20s has been arrested over a tiger-kidnap in which a bank clerk's housemate was held hostage.
The suspect was being questioned in Tallaght garda station, in south Dublin, on Thursday.
The incident took place on June 22, when a three-man armed gang burst into a house the pair were sharing. The bank employee was ordered to go to work as normal in the AIB on Crumlin Cross and steal 200,000 euro
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Wed, July 28 2010
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Sun, June 27 2010
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Update on Tiger
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A PENSIONER was among three suspects being questioned by gardai last night after armed officers recovered part of the €210,000 haul taken in a tiger kidnap on Tuesday.
The grandfather is suspected of acting as a minder for some of the money stolen by a Dublin south inner-city gang.
Acting on intelligence, gardai seized €30,000 after arresting two other suspects, aged 23 and 38, when they intercepted a car on the banks of the Royal Canal in Finglas, west Dublin, on Wednesday night.
Justice Minister Dermot Ahern yesterday congratulated gardai on the operation.
"I understand that a sizeable sum of money has been identified as being part of the proceeds of the robbery," he said.
But he was critical of the failure of AIB to implement agreed protocols, which he said had been designed to ensure bank staff safety in tiger kidnaps.
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Sun, June 27 2010
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Sun, June 27 2010
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Tiger Kidnapping Dublin
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22/06/2010 - 17:11:05
Gardaí in Dublin are investigating a tiger kidnapping.
A bank official and another man were abducted from a house in the Kiltipper area of Tallaght early this morning.
The bank official was instructed to go to the AIB branch in Crumlin Cross and hand over a sum of money in the vicinity of the Red Cow roundabout shortly after 12 noon.
Shortly after 1.30pm this afternoon, the second man was released.
Gardaí are appealing for information from the public.
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Sun, June 27 2010
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Sun, May 30 2010
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Dublin Tiger Kidnapping 28-5-2010
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28 May 2010
Arrest Follows Dublin 'Tiger Kidnapping'
A man has been detained in connection with a so-called tiger kidnapping attempt in Dublin this morning.
According to Gardaí, the incident began shortly after 6.30am when a woman was taken from her Ballyfermot home in a vehicle.
Her kidnappers then demanded the bank official obtain a sum of money from the bank and await instructions. It is believed that up to five people were involved and some are believed to have been armed.
A gardaí spokesman said that just after 12 noon the woman was released and sought assistance from a local resident. She has no physical injuries.
At 12.15pm, members from the Organised Crime Unit supported by the Emergency Response Unit arrested a man in his mid twenties at Kimmage Road West. He is currently detained at Crumlin Garda Station under the Criminal Justice Act.
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Sun, June 27 2010
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Thu, May 27 2010
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Money Laundering
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In the Republic, one person was arrested. The man, who is in his 20s, was still being questioned in Store Street Garda station in Dublin last night. He is from the north inner city and was arrested recently in connection with a tiger robbery in which more than €7 million was stolen from the Bank of Ireland in College Green, in Dublin’s south inner city.
It is understood about 20 bank accounts have been identified here connected to the Kinahan gang. A small number of key players in Kinahan’s Irish operation have also been identified here, but have not yet been arrested.
Irish Times
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Thu, May 27 2010
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Fri, February 27 2009
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Family held hostage as €7m stolen from BoI
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An armed gang is being sought after a bank official and his family were held hostage at their Co Kildare home overnight. It is thought up to €7m was stolen when the official was forced to go to the Bank of Ireland on College Green in Dublin and withdraw the cash.The gang forced their way into the home of bank employee Shane Travers in Kilteel last night and took the worker's partner, Stephanie Smith, her mother, Joan Smith and Joan's five-year-old grandson hostage. Ms Smith was beaten before the family was taken away in the family car. Shane Travers, who is in his 20s, was then forced to drive his car to the bank. After withdrawing the money, he handed it over to the gang at Clontarf DART station. No shots were fired during the incident but the family is said to be extremely traumatised. Proper procedures not followed - Ahern
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Sun, June 27 2010
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Fri, January 01 2010
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Welcome
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Welcome to our news blog, which contain articles of relevance to the security industry. This will be updated frequently
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Wed, May 19 2010
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