24-05-2025
Woman whose luxury goods were declared proceeds of crime agrees to pay CAB legal bill
Yan Yan Fan whose collection of designer goods and cash were declared the proceeds of crime last year is to pay €45,000 in fees.
A WOMAN who complained a Criminal Assest Bureau case made her more famous than The Monk has agreed to pay the legal costs of the court action.
Yan Yan Fan whose collection of designer goods and cash were declared the proceeds of crime last year is to pay €45,000 in fees.
The High Court heard this week the Chinese national had agreed to settle her long-running battle with the bureau.
Ms Fan had 96 items seized from her apartment by Cab after a raid in 2021 during an investigation into a cannabis grow-house operation.
Cab sought to have luxury goods, along with €229,000, declared the proceeds of crime.
While 19 of those items were returned to along with €89,000 frozen in bank account she had appealed the finding against her.
Judge Alex Owens accepted Yan-Yan Fan and a co-respondent, Guang Ying Wang (49) were working with a grow-house operation.
Yan-Yan Fan
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At a High Court hearing last October, it was heard that Cab is also appealing the part of the ruling in which the judge directed cash be returned to Ms Fan's parents in China.
Ms Fan, who represented herself in the proceedings, had maintained she was a lover of fashion and denied her treasured possessions were purchased with criminal cash.
At one hearing she also complained to the High Court that she has been made 'famous even more than Gerry Hutch' because of the coverage surrounding her case.
She maintained her innocence and asked the judge if he could make an order against journalists.
The CAB investigation started in 2021 when Wang was arrested on March 19 and questioned about his suspected involvement in a grow-house in Phibblestown, Co Dublin, in which cannabis worth €400,000 had been discovered.
