{"id":141339,"date":"2025-10-23T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141339\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:03:08","slug":"gambling-addict-used-fake-documents-to-borrow-e19k-from-credit-union-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141339\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling addict used fake documents to borrow \u20ac19k from Credit Union, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>gambling addict<\/strong> used <strong>fake documents<\/strong> to borrow thousands from a <strong>Credit Union,<\/strong> which he then gambled away, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p>Karl Keogh (38) used a fake Virgin Media utility bill, fake pay slips, and a fake Irish driving licence to open an account and borrow \u20ac19,000 from the Ballygall credit union in Ballymun, Dublin city centre.<\/p>\n<p>The crimes came to light when the account moved into arrears and no repayments had been made on the loans.<\/p>\n<p>Keogh of Marewood Crescent, Ballymun, Dublin, pleaded guilty to stealing \u20ac19,000 from the Ballygall Credit Union, Ballymun on April 4th, 2021. He also pleaded guilty to using a false instrument contrary to Theft and Fraud Offences Act, 2001 on April 8th, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Pieter Le Vert, defending, said his client had a terrible gambling problem and had built up a debt. He said when he got the money from the credit union he \u201cchased the loss\u201d by gambling the money and ended up with nothing.<\/p>\n<p>He told the court that the documentation wasn&#8217;t very well done. He used a fake Virgin Media bill to open the account and another fake Virgin Media bill, with a different address but the same figures on it, for the loan application.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Martin Nolan that this was a serious matter and imposed a prison term of 20 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gambling addict used fake documents to borrow thousands from a Credit Union, which he then gambled away,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-141339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115425509837698396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}