Kerry man caught at Covid checkpoint with €97k cash spared jail for money-laundering  

Judge says she hopes convicted man appreciates the significant chance he is being given

Gardaí at a checkpoint in cork stopped a man who was found to carrying a large sum of cash.

A Kerry man, who was caught at a Covid checkpoint in Ovens, Co Cork, with over €97,000 in cash stashed under the passenger seat of his car, has been given a fully suspended jail term for money-laundering.

Martin Aherne of Ballyseedy, Tralee, Co Kerry, pleaded guilty to the money-laundering offence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. Judge Elva Duffy gave him a suspended two-year sentence.