 Redmond received a tax assessment from the Criminal Assets Bureau for over £500,000 in 1999 based on the identification of up to 20 bank accounts and the lodgements to these over a period of 20 years .The final liability could be in the region of £2 million allowing for interest and penalties.The Criminal Assets Bureau raided his Castleknock home is February 1999 and discovered a draft letter purporting to be from a developer, Michael Bailey, for Dublin County Council implying that decisions Redmond was making were based on propositions from a developer but were, in fact, based on his own strategy.