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.
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.