CAB target couple who ran online ecstasy and cannabis business from Dublin home

Lukasz Cichocki and Julia Mossakowska dealt in cannabis and ecstasy from their semi-detached, according to the Criminal Assets Bureau.

Customers made contact with them through social media and orders were then delivered by car from the house they used as their base.

A double room in the Clonsilla house, which wasn’t part of the CAB case, is currently being advertised for rent at €950 with three other tenants in the property.

The advert gives ‘Lucas’ as the renter and states that the owner doesn’t live there.

The Bureau recently got a High Court order to have the money which was found during a garda raid there declared the proceeds of crime.

The couple didn’t appear in court to challenge the case against them which was based on an investigation by the Dublin Crime Response Team.

A Detective Garda Inspector said in evidence the couple “were identified as having a significant and ongoing role in the supply of a number of controlled drugs in the region.”

He added “it became clear” they were living “far in excess of their legitimate means and that there as significant evidence that they were involved in the sale and supply of drugs.”

The couple’s home at Mount Symon Green was identified by gardaí in March 2023 and a search was carried out in which “a large quantity of drugs and a large amount of cash was seized.”

Both Cichocki and Mossakowska were arrested and interviewed during which Cichocki took responsibility for the drugs and cash while she made no comment.

The search of the property also uncovered “significant evidence” of their online banking activity, evidence of holidays, expensive jewellery and the building of an extension to the house.

“All of the foregoing are inconsistent with the couple having modest financial resources.”

Ten years earlier Cichocki had been charged with drugs possession although these were later struck out.

The Detective Inspector said as a result of the investigation it was clear the couple “are directly involved in organised crime, including the large-scale distribution of controlled drugs.”

“I would describe them as being fully immersed in criminality and I suspect them to be part of a larger network of criminals directly involved in the manufacture and distribution of controlled drugs.”

The Bureau’s chief officer Det Supt Michael Gubbins also gave evidence in which he said the couple’s “modest level” of income and reliance on social welfare payments “is wholly inconsistent” with being able to save €157,000.

He added they had come up with €250,000 for the purchase of the house in February which came via large sums arriving into their bank accounts.

Det Supt Gubbins added that Lukasz Cichocki was “also a person of interest in respect of a large-scale cannabis cultivation in Co Meath in 2013.”

The couple’s “general lack of relevant previous convictions in not a true reflection of their involvement in criminality”

Judge Alex Owens said there were inconsistent explanations regarding the origin of the cash.

Accepting the Bureau’s evidence, he said a large sum of money found in a room with drugs suggests it was from dealing drugs and the balance of probability was that it came from crime.

Julia Mossakowska successfully applied for planning permission in early 2022 to have work carried out at the house at Mount Symon Green.

This included an attic conversion, a new bathroom, new roof lights, solar panels and a new window to the gable wall.

She also sought the removal of a kitchen extension and construction of a new ground floor rear extension and a porch extension to the front.

The house is currently advertised on-line with a double room for rent at €950 with three tenants already in the house.

The attic room is described as “brand new (never occupied)” and the house as being in “a very safe neighborhood.”