Worker stole €4,000 in credit card fraud

Fourteen Bord Gáis customers who had fallen into arrears on their accounts had a total of €4,000 stolen from them via fraudulent credit card transactions by a call centre employee and yesterday he got an 18-month suspended jail term.

Worker stole €4,000 in credit card fraud

Patrick Grealish, of Garraí Corcaí, Lettermullen, Co Galway, who had previous convictions of a similar nature from Galway in 2011, was working in the call centre at Little Island, Co Cork, when he carried out these offences between September 2 and 28, 2015.

It was confirmed at his sentencing hearing yesterday by Detective Garda Neil Walsh that Grealish had paid compensation for all of the money stolen.

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