Arrested gang suspect ‘very close to’ fraudster jailed for scamming account holders out of €205,000

A suspect arrested under anti-gangland legislation during a major money laundering investigation is a very close associate of a criminal jailed for three years last month for a €205,000 fraud from customers at AIB after their accounts were “taken over”.

etectives from the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) have been carrying out a nationwide investigation into SIM-swapping, account takeover and money laundering.

The arrest of the suspect in Tallaght last Thursday is considered “very significant” in the probe and a file on his activities will be now be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) after he was released from Clondalkin garda station on Friday.

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