Teen arrested on suspicion of fraudulently claiming Covid-19 payments

'The suspected offender was receiving six separate Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payments into a bank account, in what are believed to be bogus names.'

A man in his late teens has been arrested on suspicion of fraudulently claiming Covid-19 payments.

Gardaí said that the arrest was made by the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB), with assistance from Gardaí on secondment at the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP).