'Vulnerable' Cork woman avoids jail for setting up bank account used for laundering €10k

The €10,000 came from an account which had been used in the context of a fraudulent business transaction of €700,000

The court heard an account was activated at the Bank of Ireland in Blackpool on March 31, 2017, in the name of Jennifer O’Connor. File photo: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

A woman set up a bank account at Blackpool in Cork to facilitate the laundering of €10,000 and now she has been given an 18-month suspended jail term. Detective Sergeant Clodagh O’Sullivan gave evidence at the sentencing hearing for Jennifer O’Connor of 65 Killala Gardens, Knocknaheeny, Cork, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

The detective said an account was activated at the Bank of Ireland in Blackpool on March 31, 2017, in the name of Jennifer O’Connor.