Ireland deports man to US over fraud

An American wanted in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud has been deported from Ireland, where he fled ahead of being charged with multiple offences.

Scott Cavell, aged 29, convicted of drug offences in Ireland earlier this year, was put on a direct flight from Dublin to Chicago, then arrested as he stepped off the plane.

Prosecutors in Sacramento, the centre of operations for the alleged $100m (€75m) mortgage fraud, told a local newspaper they have no idea why he was deported.