Plush home of notorious criminal put up for auction by Criminal Assets Bureau

Irish Daily Mirror

15-05-2025

The home of convicted cash-in-transit armed robber Stefan Saunders has been put up for auction by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).
The five-bedroom pad will go under the hammer later this month with a guide price of €345,000 attached - but it is expected to fetch more.
The home, which is located in Hazelbury Park in Clonee, was seized by the CAB in January.
Wilsons Auctions said the home is "superbly located" with "plenty of car parking and a large rear sunny garden" and "perfectly situated overlooking a large green".
It boasts more than 2,740 sq feet and has an open plan living room, kitchen, dining room, sunroom and toilet downstairs.
In the master bedroom, there is an en-suite and a walk-in wardrobe along with four other bedrooms and a converted attic.
The High Court ruled back in late 2022 that the house, in Clonee on the border between Dublin and Meath, was bought from the proceeds of crime, but Saunders launched two separate appeals to a judge's decision to allow the CAB to take control of it.
Those appeals ran out of road in recent months and the CAB took possession of the five-bedroom, semi-detached house in Clonee's Hazelbury Park earlier this year.
The couple bought the house in 2005 for €360,000 – and spent some €125,000 renovating it a few years later. The renovation job saw them fitting this jacuzzi – as well as installing high-end marble counters in the bathrooms and kitchen.
The High Court ruled the outlay on the house was just part of a massive spending spree between 2005 and 2007. That included a six-week luxury holiday in Orlando with family members and the purchase of two BMWs.
The court heard Saunders – alleged by the CAB to be a serious armed robber – even paid a carpenter €30,000 in cash to do work on the Clonee house. The couple had also bought an investment property in Finglas, north Dublin at the height of their wealth.
Stefan Saunders, 46, was jailed in 2018 for seven-and-a-half years after Gardaí foiled a cash-in-transit armed robbery in 2016. He and his accomplices were arrested by the heavily-armed Emergency Response Unit as they prepared to rob a cash delivery van in Dunboyne, Co Meath.
He is also suspected by the Criminal Assets Bureau of being involved in the €1.8 million Brinks Allied security van robbery in Artane, Dublin in 2005.
He was charged with false imprisonment in connection with a tiger kidnapping of a cash-in-transit company employee in Dublin in 2010.
The trial was abandoned after a decision by the Supreme Court.