Two arrested after man scammed out of €28k on dating website

The sum of money was laundered through accounts in Tipperary and Dublin respectively. 

A separate sum of money was laundered through the man's accounts-the proceeds of another invoice redirect fraud against an Irish-based company. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Gardaí have arrested a man and a woman over an online romance fraud after a man was defrauded of almost €30,000 on a dating website. 

Officers made the arrests after discovering a man located in the east of the country had been the vctim of romance fraud.