FINANCIAL institutions have a duty to society when young unemployed people lodge large sums of money, Judge Cyril Kelly observed yesterday in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
A defendant in a drugs case had £50,000 in one account and a "blind eye" appeared to have been turned. This facilitated the wrong just as much as the next door neighbour who did not complain, he said.
The investigation into assets belonging to members of the family of jailed drug dealer Tony Felloni is continuing, the court was told.
Mr Shane Murphy, prosecuting, told Judge Cyril Kelly that information concerning the Felloni assets which he had earlier requested was not before the court as the Garda investigation was not completed.
Mr Murphy asked for an adjournment of the sentence hearing on Felloni's daughter, Regina (20).
Regina Felloni, of Mellowes Road, Dublin 11, had been due for sentence having pleaded guilty in July to possessing £30,000 worth of heroin for supply in a rented flat at Drumcondra, Dublin, on April 2nd, 1996. Gardai also discovered £1,000 in the flat.
Judge Kelly remanded her in continuing custody to February 16th, 1997. He also adjourned the case of her brother, Luigi Felloni (23), of Dominick Street, to the same date.
In his case, the court is to hear an application in relation to more than £8,000 in cash and 211,000 pesetas (£1,000) in cash and travellers' cheques found in his home during searches.
He is at present serving six years for drug dealing offences. He had pleaded guilty to importing and possessing £25,000 worth of heroin for supply at Dublin Airport on May 22nd, 1996.
He also admitted two further charges of possessing smaller amounts of heroin for supply at his flat in Dominick Street, Dublin, on June 22nd, 1995 and again on January 11th, 1996.
His father (53) is serving a total sentence of 20 years imposed by Judge Kelly on a number of charges relating to drug dealing in 1994 and 1995.
In July during Regina Felloni's case, Garda Seamus Boland said her arrest came during "Operation Pizza", which was the codename for a campaign organised by the Dublin North Central Divisional Drugs Unit to target the Felloni family drugs business.
Garda Boland said Regina Felloni was officially unemployed but had £50,000 in a bank and paid cash to buy and renovate a house. At the time of her arrest, she also drove a £6,000 Nissan 1994 car and had a £350 mobile.
She became involved in drugs after the 1993 release from prison of her father. Her seven convictions before that were mainly for shoplifting.
Mr Murphy said the High Court had frozen Felloni family assets of more than £100,000 including the house at Mellowes Road, Finglas, owned by Regina Felloni. More details of these matters will be disclosed at her sentence hearing.