A fur coat and tens of thousands of euro worth of designer bags were among the luxury items seized from Yan Yan Fan by the Criminal Assets Bureau. Yan Yan Fan A woman allegedly linked to a Chinese drugs gang will have to wait to hear if she is to get back her seized collection of designer goods. A fur coat and tens of thousands of euro worth of designer bags were among the luxury items seized from Yan Yan Fan by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).
In April, she defended herself during a hearing in which CAB sought to have the goods along with €229,000 declared the proceeds of crime. The Bureau’s case is that Ms Fan is linked to an organised crime gang involved in cannabis grow-houses and that she had a role managing properties. Judge Alex Owens had said he would fast track the judgement, but at a recent sitting he told her it would not be ready until next term.
Despite having worked on the case “every day for the last three weeks” it was not yet ready, but it was nearly finished. Ms Fan who appeared in court, thanked the judge. She previously told the court said she is a lover of fashion and denied the goods were bought as part of a sophisticated money-laundering operation between Ireland and China.
She is also linked to 12 bank accounts which she controls, in which €1.7m went through since 2005. Counsel for CAB said it “beggars belief” that all the cash transactions came from her parents in China, and that her evidence it came from the sale of property was “inc.
