The Garda file on a Co Cork chef arrested as part of a Garda investigation into IRA money laundering is almost complete, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard today.
Don Bullman (30), a father-of-two, of Fernwood Crescent, Leghanamore, Wilton, Co Cork, was charged in February with membership of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA.
Mr Seamus Cassidy of the Chief Prosecution Solicitor’s office told the court the file in the case will be delivered to his office in two weeks. He applied for Mr Bullman to be remanded until October 4th and said he hoped to be in a position to serve the book of evidence then.
Last February, Detective Superintendent Diarmuid O’Sullivan said gardaí had found a washing powder box containing over €94,000 in three individual wrappings when Mr Bullman was arrested at Heuston Station in Dublin in a Northern-registered 4x4.
Det Supt O’Sullivan said during the bail hearing that Mr Bullman was "a central individual" in the activities of the IRA prior to February 16th and that activity was "a money laundering operation for the IRA, in which he is central".
The court remanded Mr Bullman on continuing bail until October 4th.