Cork car crash organiser jailed for defrauding insurance firms

A principal organiser of staged car accidents in Co Cork which cost insurance companies €200,000 was jailed for two years yesterday.

A judge said a continuous campaign of deception against insurance companies, through fake accidents, would end up being paid for by ‘Seán Citizen’.

Former insurance consultant Tommy Maher, aged 51, of Scarteen, Newmarket, Co Cork, had one year of a three-year jail sentence suspended for his role in organising six fraudulent car crashes at the centre of a garda investigation, code-named Operation Nascar.