Authorities have dismantled several organized crime groups involved in drug trafficking, fraud, and illegal tobacco smuggling across various regions. Gardaí have disrupted an Eastern European drugs gang's money laundering operation. In separate incidents, three individuals were arrested and drugs were seized in a police raid, and three men were held on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs. Additionally, five members of a tobacco crime gang that made millions from illegal cigarette sales were jailed, with the group laundering £1.8 million and receiving a total of 25 years in sentences. Eleven men were also arrested in the state's north after police seized more than 8kg of illicit drugs. A trio was also sentenced after hundreds were ripped off in a fraud scheme.