'Naive pawn' in money laundering scam spared jail

Accused made contact with unknown parties on Snapchat and later received threatening phone calls from them

The accused received threatening calls from the money laundering organisation.

A young man in Mallow became a pawn for a money-laundering criminal organisation through contact with unknown parties on Snapchat and he later received threatening phone calls from them.

At Cork Circuit Criminal Court, Mateusz Gryglak, of Gould’s Hill, Mallow, Co Cork, was given a three-year suspended sentence for his part in the international money-laundering scam.