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TWO PEOPLE APPEARED in court this afternoon, charged in relation with fraudulent welfare claims.
The man in his 30s and woman in her 40s were were released on bail to re-appear next week at the Dublin District Court.
Earlier today, detectives from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation and inspectors from the Department of Social Protection searched a number of houses in the north and west Dublin areas, as part of an ongoing investigation into fraudulent welfare claims. During the searches a large number of documents were seized and five people were arrested
A 19-year-old man, is due to appear at Blanchardstown District Court at 10.30 am on 15 July, and two others - a man in his 20s and a woman in her 40s – have been released without charge.
A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Now all they have to do is catch the thousands of others
Make an example of them!
Don’t forget to claim the ‘oul disability there, Seimi boy.
Seamus, you’re defending dole scroungers?
“During the searches a large number of documents were seized and five people arrested”, fair play. If only such a clinical approach could be applied to Anglo Irish Bank.
Press release from the guards, took me all of 30 seconds to find it:
Arrest of one male re financial irregularities 18th March 2010
As part of the ongoing investigation by Gardai from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation into alleged financial irregularities at a Financial Institution, a search was carried out this morning the 18th March 2010 and a male in his early 60s has been arrested. He is being detained under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 as amended at Bray Garda Station.
About time they got their finger out! It has been so obvious for years that people are abusing the welfare system!
In fairness, its about time!!
Free legal aid of course !!!
Yes, of course. Just like you or I would be entitled to if we were arrested. Aren’t you glad that you live in a country where that happens? Doesn’t it make you feel good that people who are not well off are treated (more or less) fairly in our courts, so that the wealthy are not untouchable and the poor are not abused?
No?
@Aoife. Well, they’re doing their best to correct that situation. Soon our justice system will be as ‘fair’ as the US. Legal Aid solicitors have seen a cut of 28+% in fees: http://www.thejournal.ie/legal-aid-lawyers-have-fees-cut-by-another-10-per-cent-177095-Jul2011/
Also, you don’t even need to be charged, The Journel followers KNOW you are guilty, before the DPP even receives the papers for a court case.
Remind ye all too that a Garda can box the head off a fella for saying his shirt is “a bit gay” and be allowed to walk free – jail is too harsh for HIM…. while bankers & CEOs of loss-making-semi-states can legally “earn” over €100,00 and manage to plunge the entire country into serious economic disarray.
Yes indeed Martin it would be more cost effective execute “them” on the spot. Thank god there are right thinking people like you to be outraged and buy Volkswagens. If only everyone one could be nice like you the world would be safer for neatly dressed golfers.
@Gordon I was oversimplifying and rose-tinting a bit there, I know! But it’s fairer to have free legal aid available than not to, just like it’s fairer to have social welfare available even though some people are selfish and criminal and cheat the system.
Why have we almost 2million more PPS numbers that people. Strange.
So. When are we going to read about fraudulent bankers and developers being arrested then?
Yeah right. They get bonuses. Sorry, I forgot my place there for a minute.
That’s at least two from Anglo alone.
http://www.herald.ie/national-news/fraud-squad-makes-second-anglo-arrest-2109421.html
one of them is 19? just shows us those scumbags and parasites are getting younger, no wonder our education system and health system is a disgrace with people’s like this
Don’t agree with claiming something that is not your right. But then, now I do have a job. Easy catches and not likely to have friends in the banks is why they are being made public,
Anyone know what the actual stats on welfare fraud are here? I know in the UK the problem is present but minimal but the tabloids talk it up like crazy.
Quick google search says there is about 1.5 billion fraudulently claimed every year in the UK. Doesn’t appear minimal to me and in my opinion it’s not something that should be tolerated or shoulders shrugged saying ‘it happens’. These people are cheats and liars
Now that’s more like it!
Good enough for them! Scrotes
Why can’t we have their names???
I love the way people excuse thieves and crooks that take money out of all our pockets using the ole “ah sher look at the bankers” rhetoric. Two wrongs don’t make a right and these rodents are just as guilty of fraud, theft and conspiracy as those shameless bankers. These people ARE NOT poor. If they are fraudulently claiming social benefits they are 1) working for cash and drawing the dole (or) 2) claiming multiple benefits that they aren’t entitled to. Both are illegal and both means they prob earn more in a week than I do or alot of people on here do. So lets stop the poor mouth, violin playing exercise and stop making excuses for these rodents, that we all pay tax so as to subsidise their social lives!
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