Truck driver Paul Carew, a key money launderer for the Kinahan drug cartel, has been released on temporary release from Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison after serving five years of an eight-year sentence. He has been warned not to re-offend.

Paul Carew, a key money launderer for the Kinahan drug cartel, has been released from Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison after serving just five years of his eight-year sentence for the crime. Carew was apprehended while transporting €191,161 ($226,412) in drug cash through Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in 2016. Prior to his most recent incarceration, he was caught placing €350,000 in cash into a van in Dublin. Carew’s remit was to use a secret compartment in his lorry to transport drug profits to Europe to help fund the cartel’s other drug shipments. While in prison, Carew was protected by Kinahan members on the jail’s D landing.