US authorities have seized "substantial sums" from 11 Allied Irish Bank accounts held by a $125 million illegal internet pharmacy.
This is the second time in recent months that US investigators have seized AIB bank accounts from US-Indian controlled internet pharmacies.
Bill Grant, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Agency in Washington, said that the agency did not know of a link between the two cases but was continuing to investigate.
In a consent agreement shown to The Irish Times, Ms Sabina S Chhabra-Farqui (30) from Weston, Florida, admitted opening 11 AIB bank accounts that were used to hide part of the proceeds of an illegal online pharmacy that sold more than six million units of prescription-only drugs.
A spokeswoman for the US Attorney's Office in Alexandria, Virginia, said that under the terms of the consent agreement it could not disclose the amount held in the AIB accounts but said the sum was "substantial" and at least ranged into hundreds of thousands of dollars.