A court in Letterkenny, Co Donegal has been told that more than €200,000 was stolen from dozens of AIB customers by a gang which included mobile phone shop employees.
The fraud involved the accounts of people being “taken over” using duplicate SIM cards to access money remotely before accounts were raided. A 27-year-old father-of-three appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court charged with 185 charges relating to the online fraud, reports the Irish Times.
The Irish Times reports that Ami Enabulele, of Glendale Manor, Letterkenny, pleaded guilty to the charges of money laundering, theft, attempted theft and unlawful use of a computer.
Enabulele’s barrister, Shane Costello, told the court that his client is an unemployed asylum seeker and got involved with the scam out of boredom. Enabulele has three children, with a fourth child on the way but is no longer in a relationship with the mother of his children. One fo the children has special needs.
The AIB customers have received back their funds from the bank however the bank are still “out of pocket”.
Enabulele claimed he received about €10,000 for his part in the overall scam.
Judge John Aylmer said he would need some time to consider all the evidence and adjourned the case for final sentencing on Thursday week.
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