Court appearance international invoice re-direction fraud

Padraig Conlon 10 Feb 2021

Gardaí have charged the man in his late 20s that was arrested yesterday morning in connection with an ongoing investigation into international invoice re-direction frauds.

He is due to appear before Criminal Courts of Justice this morning at 10.30a.m.

Investigators at the Money Laundering Investigation Unit (MLIU) at the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) arrested the man during an operation in the west Dublin area yesterday morning.

In the course of the investigation it was established that funds totalling €430,000 were transferred in fraudulent transactions from companies in Spain, Belgium, the UK, and Ireland.

Following a lengthy investigation and with the assistance of the Irish Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), €389,000 of the funds have since been recovered and returned to the companies affected.

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