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Vincent Collopy, a member of the high-profile crime family, is to be extradited from Bulgaria on charges relating to serious criminal activity in Limerick.
However, the 33-year-old from St. Mary’s Park will first have to face charges in Bulgaria arising out of a drugs and weapons find at an apartment on the Black Sea last April.
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He has been on the run since 2010 after his brothers, Kieran, Damian and Brian were sentenced to imprisonment for threatening a former associate, Willie Moran, who they believed had money belonging to their late brother Phillip.
A European arrest warrant was issued when he was arrested by Bulgarian police.