The CAB is unable to whack all the moles

Low funding and inadequate money laundering laws make chasing criminals futile

CAB officers confiscating a luxury vehicle in Dublin earlier this week Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins

Whack-a-Mole is the well-known arcade game where contestants use a soft mallet to hit the toy moles, which haphazardly appear. The purpose is to put the moles back into their holes. It is a repetitive and tedious game that always follows the same pattern.

The moles keep randomly popping up. The player keeps trying to hit them on the head. There is a futility to the task because, once you get rid of ...