'There is no cheap insurance in Ireland,' judge tells Romanian woman who bought two bogus policies

Alina Serbenco, 29, faced charges at Clonakilty District Court of driving without insurance, producing a false insurance disc and using a false insurance disc.

A woman who bought insurance from someone posing as an Axa broker via Facebook messenger has been ordered by a judge to tell her story on a Romanian-Irish forum, after she accepted the bogus cover she had on two different vehicles was "too good to be true".

Alina Serbenco, of 19 Clogheen Holiday Homes near Clonakilty, Co Cork, said she paid €1,000 to insure a Volkswagen Golf in November 2019 and then in October 2020 paid €1,200 for insurance on a Renault, after being told about the 'broker' by colleagues at a factory where she worked.