20230309 - Medical student lost €14,000 when college fees were redirected in money-laundering scam

A college student has received a suspended sentence for laundering money which was linked to a redirect scam in which another college student lost over €14,000 meant for her college fees.

The victim, originally from New Zealand and in her final year of studying medicine at UCD, contacted gardaí after money put into her bank account by her father for her college fees never arrived.

Detective Garda Barry Griffin told Pieter Le Vert BL, prosecuting, that the UCD student made arrangements with her father in New Zealand for him to transfer money for her college fees into her Bank of Ireland account.
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When the money did not arrive, and the woman's father said he had already got a receipt for it, the woman made inquiries and found it had gone into an account in her name in Balbriggan, which she never set up.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/medical-student-lost-e14000-when-college-fees-were-redirected-in-money-laundering-scam-1445125.html