Gardai have swooped on five addresses in Dublin, as part of investigations into a suspected ice-cream van money laundering racket.

The raids happened yesterday on the southside but details are only emerging now.

It's understood the searches were part of an investigation into a well-known associate of a gangster shot in Spain last month.

Crime Reporter with the Irish Daily Mirror Cathal McMahon says some ice cream vans are being linked with criminal activity: