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"Mr President, international organised crime is at its most dangerous and its most pernicious when it is linked to terrorist groups.
In Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, we have had at work for many years one of the most sophisticated terrorist and criminal organisations of modern times, the IRA. For decades it funded its vicious terror campaign out of the proceeds of its vast array of criminal activities. Now that – at least for the present – the gun has served its purpose, the product of its criminal empire is being used to fund its pseudo-political party, Sinn Féin. It is one of the richest political parties in Europe, because it lives off the proceeds of crime. Most notorious of late was the robbery of EUR 40 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast. That is only part of the IRA's programme of criminality, which ranges through fuel smuggling, drug dealing, money laundering and all things illegal.
Happily, the Assets Recovery Agency has recently struck a powerful blow against the IRA's international criminal network by smashing a money-laundering operation in Manchester, through which its chief of staff, Thomas Murphy, was laundering millions of pounds via property deals.
If they were the true democrats that they claim to be, there are two Members of this House who could shed much more light on these matters, because their party is inextricably linked with this large-scale criminality. I refer to Sinn Féin Members Bairbre de Brún and Mary Lou McDonald who, as ever when we discuss these matters, are absent and notable for their complicit silence."@en1
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