Updated / Thursday, 13 May 2021
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The woman is being held at Tallaght Garda Station
A woman has been arrested and cash and drugs have been seized following a search operation in west Dublin this morning.
Gardaí attached to the Money Laundering Investigation Unit of the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau carried out a planned operation at an apartment complex in Citywest, as part of an ongoing investigation into the laundering of the criminal proceeds of drug trafficking in west Dublin.
During the course of the search, €30,000 in cash and €20,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis, subject to analysis, were seized, as well as drug dealing paraphernalia.
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Gardaí attached to the Money Laundering Investigation Unit, Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB), carried out a planned operation at an apartment complex in Citywest off the N7 this morning.
During the course of the search €30,000 in cash, €20,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis (subject to analysis) and drug dealing paraphernalia were seized.
A number of electronic devices were also seized for forensic examination.
A female in her 20s was arrested at the scene on suspicion on Money Laundering contrary to Section 7 of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Acts 2010 to 2021 and is currently being detained at Tallaght Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.
€10.5m stolen from Irish businesses in invoice redirection fraud in 2020
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
In 2020, approximately €10.5 million was stolen from Irish businesses through invoice redirection fraud.
In most of these cases the money was transferred abroad, proceeds of these crimes can then be laundered through accounts in Ireland.
Invoice redirect fraud or business email compromise (BEC) fraud is where the fraudsters send an email to a business purporting to be from a supplier etc, requesting the immediate payment of an invoice or transfer of funds.
Fraudsters may spoof an email address, send ‘spear phishing’ emails or use malware to get the data.
Gardaí found that €430,000 had been transferred in fraudulent transactions. By Orla Dwyer Wednesday 10 Feb 2021, 9:53 AM Feb 9th 2021, 8:38 PM 39,479 Views 0 Comments
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Updated Feb 10th 2021, 9:53 AM
A MAN HAS been charged in connection with an ongoing investigation into international invoice redirection frauds.
The man, aged in his late 20s, was arrested by gardaí yesterday and has since been charged.
He is due to appear before Criminal Courts of Justice at 10.30am today.
The man was arrested during a garda operation in the west Dublin area yesterday morning.
During the course of this ongoing investigation, gardaí established that funds amounting to €430,000 were transferred in fraudulent transactions from companies in Ireland, Spain, Belgium and the UK.