Ex-IRA figure faces US
counterfeiting charge
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP)
An Irish Republican Army veteran and Marxist politician was arrested Friday to face a ne
w U.S. extradition warrant claiming he helped launder millions in North Korean-produced counterfeit dollars.Irish police arrested former Workers Party leader Sean Garland, 74, outside the entrance of the fringe party's Dublin headquarters — more than three years after he jumped bail in the neighboring British territory of Northern Ireland while facing a similar U.S. extradition warrant there.
Garland had been living openly in the Republic of Ireland — which typically refuses to extradite citizens to face criminal charges outside the European Union — since he left Belfast and abandoned a bail of 30,000 British pounds (about $53,000 at the time) following his October 2005 arrest.
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