Woman flew from Japan to Dublin on promise of €6.8m from 'two-star US general'

A woman who posed as a UN diplomat and took €8,990 from a Japanese woman in Dublin Airport, after promising her access to a container filled with cash, will be sentenced in June.

Woman flew from Japan to Dublin on promise of €6.8m from 'two-star US general'

Agata Pracz, 39, from Swords, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty to dishonestly inducing Yumi Takekoshi to hand over the money on July 15, 2014.

Garda Enda Ledwith told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, yesterday, that Ms Takekoshi, a 58-year-old from Tokyo, was contacted through social media site, LinkedIn, by a woman purporting to a be a “two-star US general” based in Dublin Airport.

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