Man with an unexplained €60k in his account jailed for receiving six other people’s covid benefits

The 39-year-old, who was on social welfare, pleaded guilty to money laundering using his account in his local credit union and the finance app Revolut, and welfare fraud in 2022

Stefan Muntean, who has prior convictions for theft and trespass, had been entitled to a carer’s allowance to look after his father and had worked intermittently. Photo: Tom Tuite

An unemployed father of four who could not explain almost €60,000 lodged into his accounts over four months and was receiving six other people’s Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) has been jailed.

Stefan Muntean, a Romanian national with an address at Meadowbrook, Athlone, Co Westmeath, was handed a three-year sentence by Judge Keenan Johnson at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court.