Gangster by John Mooney

Author:John Mooney [Mooney, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: prison, Ireland, Dublin, IRA, murder, gang crime, court, john gilligan, drugs, assassination, Gilligan, John Traynor, drug smuggling, Guerin, UDA, organised crime, best seller, veronica guerin, UVF, Charlie Bowden
ISBN: 9781905379996
Publisher: Maverick Publishing Ltd
Published: 2011-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

Even before linking Baltus and Djorai to Gilligan, the Dutch MOT were convinced they had uncovered a serious money laundering operation. If they had needed confirmation of this, it came on 9 May when a criminal investigation team tapped Baltus’s and Rahman’s names into the Dutch national criminal system. By a stroke of good fortune, Baltus had been arrested the day before in a hotel in The Hague collecting an envelope. This envelope had been posted from Dublin and marked for the attention of one Mr Simon Rahman.

When Rahman failed to collect the letter, the hotel’s manager opened the package and found it contained 31 counterfeit US dollar notes. One of the notes was printed on one side only. The rest were of good quality and bore the serial numbers B70161620K and B26466264L. The manager called the police. One detective stayed in the hotel while his colleague took the forged notes away for forensic examination. Back in police headquarters, the detective learned that a similar amount had been seized from Baltus’s son the previous October. Not only that, but Interpol had circulated bulletins on the counterfeit cash. The detective went looking for the bulletin, reference number 12 A20305. Meanwhile back at the hotel, Baltus turned up to collect Rahman’s letter and was promptly arrested.

Forging any currency is a serious offence, but printing US dollars is far more serious because they belong directly to the American government. Once the embassy was alerted to the find, the pressure would mount on the local police to locate those responsible. To be seen to have done everything possible, the detectives asked the hotel to let them know if anyone called about the letter. A day later, the hotel staff received a call from a young woman enquiring about the letter. She rang three times and asked if it had been collected. Each time she got more anxious, demanding to know if anyone had showed up. On the fourth call, she left an Irish phone number. Her name, she said, was Mrs Ollie. The hotel passed the number to the police who in turn contacted Garda headquarters. The phone number was traced back to Carol Rooney.

Ever cautious of his phone calls being tapped, Gilligan had asked his girlfriend to call on his behalf using a friend’s phone. When she failed to find out what was happening, he called the hotel himself. The call was traced. Baltus was arrested pursuant to Article 209 of the Criminal Code, which refers to counterfeiting. Ever willing to cut a deal, he told the investigators he had received his orders from Rahman. He then volunteered Djorai’s name. The police picked him up a short time later. They couldn’t press charges due to lack of evidence.

A week later, after cross-referencing the telephone calls and security footage of Gilligan taken in the casino, the Dutch police were told by their Irish colleagues that ‘Gilligan belongs in the top three criminals in Ireland. He deals in drugs and firearms and maintains contact with subversive groups.

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