Answered Snapchat ad to 'make a few quid' – Echo.ie

Dublin Circuit Criminal CourtAn apprentice electrician who money laundered more than €50,000 after answering an ad on Snapchat has been ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service in lieu of a 20-month jail sentence, reports Isabel Hayes. Sean William O’Rourke (21) told gardai he agreed to hand over his bank card to money launderers after seeing an ad on social media in order to “make a few quid”, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard on Monday. O’Rourke was told he would receive a “couple of thousand euro” if he allowed his bank account to be used, Detective Garda David Jennings told the court. O’Rourke, with an address at Glenview Lawns, Tallaght, pleaded guilty to one count of money-laundering within the state on February 7 this year. He has no previous convictions. Sentencing O’Rourke, Judge Martin Nolan said the court has been dealing with a lot of similar cases of young people with no prior criminal records getting involved in money laundering. “This epidemic is going to have to stop somehow,” Judge Nolan said. “If that means young people go to jail to stop it, those young people are going to have to go to jail.” The judge said he…
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