Police investigating last December's £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery have arrested an eighth man for questioning and last night charged a third man.
The 40-year-old man was detained in Derry and is understood to have been taken to Antrim police station for interrogation.
Four people are now in custody following a series of arrests and searches across Northern Ireland last week. Police last night charged a third man in connection with the raid. Previously two men had been charged in connection with the robbery, the biggest cash theft in British or Irish history. One has been remanded on his own bail to reappear in court next month while the other is in custody, again to appear in court in early December.
Two others brought in for questioning have since been released.
A senior north Belfast loyalist paramilitary was also arrested yesterday under a police operation to counter organised crime.
Andre Shoukri, a UDA leader, was arrested along with three other men - at least one of them another senior UDA figure - and a woman. A senior security source said the arrests were part of "an extremely significant operation". Houses in the Westland estate, north Belfast, as well as the Castlereagh area of east Belfast were searched.
Northern Secretary Peter Hain said the arrests were aimed at ending organised crime and should not be seen as a specific move against loyalist paramilitaries in particular.
Speaking in Bangor, Co Down, yesterday Mr Hain said the operation against racketeering "doesn't equate to loyalism".
"People shouldn't be acting in a violent or criminal fashion."