Gardaí probe alleged theft and false accounting by solicitor

Gardaí at the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau were following up on a complaint made by the Law Society. File Picture: Pexels

Update 26/08/22: The man, aged in his 50s, arrested for theft and false accounting in the Leinster area has been released without charge. A file will now be prepared for the Director of Prosecutions.

A solicitor has been arrested in connection with alleged theft and false accounting.

Gardaí at the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau were following up on a complaint made by the Law Society.

On foot of the complaint, an investigation was launched into a Leinster-based solicitor against whom allegations of theft, false accounting, forgery, and use of false instruments were made.

Clients of the solicitor made specific allegations of theft to the Law Society.

The society alleges that when its investigation uncovered deficits in his client account, the solicitor then allegedly submitted false documents purporting to show that the deficits no longer existed.

This morning, gardaí arrested a man aged in his 50s.

He is currently being detained at a Garda station in Leinster under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.