Charity hit by scam

AS much as €100,000 may have been stolen from the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation (CNCF) in a carefully engineered scam at its Dublin office.

The robbery is the subject of a Garda Fraud Squad investigation which has already established that €60,000 was siphoned from the charity’s coffers over a three-year period. This figure, some sources believe, could climb to considerably more than that once the garda probe is completed.

An employee at the CNCF Dublin office has been suspended.