Employee nabbed for €78,000 travel expense scam

Bosses at agri-research body Teagasc failed to notice for 15 years that a worker had been filing weekly bogus travel expenses worth €77,636, it emerged today.

The employee was demoted and has since paid back the falsely claimed amount as well as an extra €52,420 in interest and penalties, the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee heard.