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BBC names Mr Big

21th October 2004
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THE BBC in Northern Ireland has named a man living on the Fermanagh-Cavan border as the 'Mr Big' in a multi-million-pound illegal waste racket.

The Spotlight program followed a truck belonging to Raymond Crane, a company controlled by Cyril James McGuinness, generally known as Dublin Jimmy, as a shadow director. The vehicle went from Gorey in the south-east of the Irish Republic to a landfill at Candlefoot in Ayrshire.

The landfill site at Candlefoot is owned by Robert Drummond.

Drummond admitted to knowing McGuinness but refused to answer questions about their business dealings. Drummond also refused to say if he knew the waste came from the Irish Republic: it is illegal to move waste for landfill across national borders in the European Union.

Last year McGuinness was named in a Waterford court as having illegally moved waste from that city to a huge illegal dump at Kildress, Co Tyrone.

Four Irish local authorities on both sides of the border are investigating claims that McGuinness has been collecting waste from contractors throughout the Republic and taking it to the North.

South Dublin County Council estimates that the profit on each load is at least €4,000 (£2,800).

Following publicity in local media earlier this year McGuinness started to move more of his waste to Scotland. McGuinness is a director of Northern Ireland waste firms Fermanagh Waste Recycling and Eurosk ips. His wife Mary is the sole shareholder in Raymond Crane.

McGuinness refused to reply to questions that had been faxed to him by the BBC.


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