Anglo clerk to be sentenced for €200,000 account fraud

A former Anglo Irish Bank employee will be sentenced next week for a €200,000 computer fraud at a Limerick branch of the bank three years ago.

Gordon O’Brien, aged 43, committed the fraud as Anglo was calling in its loan accounts during nationalisation of the bank. It was later noticed during an audit by Anglo’s successor, Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC).

O’Brien had set the money aside “as a war chest” as he was going to lose his job in the wind-up of the bank. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard his wife was going to lose her job with another bank and his son had just been diagnosed with autism and faced having his education grant cut.