27-06-2025
CAB seize €40K belonging to gangland murder victim shot dead 13 years ago
Darren Falsey died after being shot five times outside his home in Cork in August 2011 in a gangland style attack.
Money belonging to a suspected drug dealer shot dead 13 years ago has been seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau.
Darren Falsey died after being shot five times outside his home in Cork in August 2011 in a gangland style attack.
The bureau's application to the High Court to transfer the €41,000 in an AIB bank account to the State was not opposed.
Judge Alexander Owens said it was a clear case in his view and he agreed to make the order.
Darren Falsey
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The Sunday World previously reported how gardaí investigating the killing found almost €40,000 in cash in a freezer in a lock-up close to Riverstick, where Falsey kept a number of dogs.
It was reported that Falsey had links to a major drugs gang and there was suspicions that he was killed because he owed money to a senior figure in the gang.
One local source at the time described Falsey as someone who was 'well known' as a drug dealer but 'never got his hands dirty'.
'He would have had links to a few different gangs but thought of himself as something of an independent operator.'
Falsey's killers are believed to have had him under surveillance for some time before he was killed.
He had visited a relative in Cork prison on the day of his murder and was dropped home to Carrigaline shortly before he was targeted.
Neighbours did not report hearing any shots on the afternoon of the killing and it is thought the killer used a silencer
His body was discovered when his partner returned him to find him lying on the floor and the porch door open.
At an inquest hearing last year it was heard he died instantly when he was shot five times at close range after he opened the door of his family home.
The jury at the South Cork Coroner's Court returned a verdict of unlawful killing after they heard that no one has ever been prosecuted for the killing.
There has been a major garda investigation including several arrests, and the recovery months later of the handgun used in the attack.
