Man charged over €33m meth seizure refused bail despite Dad's offer to sell home

A Kerry man charged over the country's largest-ever crystal meth seizure has been denied bail despite his father's offer to sell the family home and put up €200,000.

Mr Leen brought his fresh application before Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring in the High Court in Cloverhill on Friday. However, the alleged "logistics figure" was refused bail after the judge held that he was a flight risk. "Gardaí can confirm the container contained a purported magnetic separator machine destined for Australia," he said, adding that it had "sophisticated concealment" which was purposely built for the drugs, and the machine was not operative. It contained 543kg of crystal meth.

The bail hearing was told that Nathan McDonnell of Ballyseedy Garden Centre paid the €20,000 shipping charges. The machine remained at the garden centre for several months before being moved to Cork Port for transport to Australia. The officer also said the accused spent a large amount of time out of Ireland and went to various countries, including Columbia, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and the Netherlands.Theresa Lowe BL, for the State, asked the court to consider the Garda evidence and said that the accused could go to a country that did not have an extradition treaty with Ireland.

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