Woman avoids going to jail for posing as UN diplomat as part of €9,000 fraud

A woman who posed as a UN diplomat and took nearly €9,000 from a Japanese woman in Dublin Airport has been given a suspended three-year sentence.

Agata Pracz, aged 39,of Swords, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty to dishonestly inducing Yumi Takekoshi to hand over €8,990 on July 15, 2014 by promising her access to a container filled with cash.

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