Cash worth more than €500,000 has been seized as part of an operation targeting an international organised crime gang.

Officers with the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau carried out a number of searches in north Dublin today.

Cash 'in excess of €500,000' was seized, the force said.

A 60-year-old man was arrested for an offence under the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act, 1996.

He is currently being held under the provisions of Section 4 of Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at Finglas Garda Station.

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