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Update - Four arrested Dublin suspected terrorist financing

All four people who had been arrested have been released without charge, three this morning and one this afternoon. The investigation is on-going and a file will be prepared for the Director of Pubic Prosecutions.

Previous press release listed below refers.

Garda Press Office

This morning, 22nd January 2019, as part of an ongoing investigation by the Special Detective Unit, The Garda National Economic Crime Bureau and Security & Intelligence into international terrorist financing, a series of six searches were conducted in Dublin.
 
Documents, electronic equipment and €4,500 cash was seized. Four persons were arrested for suspected terrorist financing contrary to Section 13 of the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act, 2005 and are currently detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at Dublin Garda Stations.

The arrested persons are a man in his 40’s, three females, one in her 30’s, one in her 40’s and one in her 60’s.
 
The investigation is on-going.