A former member of the Aer Corps who had £105,000 in his attic on November 7th, 1996, has been found guilty of money laundering the proceeds of drugs dealing.
Desmond McHugh (41), married, of Cherrywood Crescent, Clondalkin was remanded for sentence after a jury at Dublin Circuit Court convicted him. He told gardai in a statement that he was holding the money for his brother-in-law, Mark Connor.
He had pleaded not guilty to handling the money knowing it to be the proceeds of Mark Connor's drugs dealing.
