{"id":162111,"date":"2025-11-04T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162111\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:23:11","slug":"financial-alert-in-summer-2022-led-to-dj-carey-fraud-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162111\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial alert in summer 2022 led to DJ Carey fraud investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

An alert from a financial institution in the summer of 2022 was what sparked the investigation into DJ Carey which on Monday culminated in him being jailed for five and a half years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Detective Sergeant Mike Bourke told Dublin District Court this financial institution became suspicious when a customer wanted to transfer a large sum of money to Carey.<\/p>\n

Separately, an injured party contacted garda\u00ed, alleging that they had given money to the former all-star hurler, believing that he needed treatment for a medical issue, which they discovered might not be true.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed obtained orders to get Carey\u2019s financial records from AIB.<\/p>\n

Carey spoke with one man in February 2021 about this injured party\u2019s wife, who had been diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n

He said he had the same cancer as the man\u2019s wife \u2014 multiple myeloma \u2014 and there was later contact between them about treatment in the US.<\/p>\n

He later asked them for \u20ac4,000, saying he had free treatment as an elite athlete, which had run out and he needed money to pay for more treatment.<\/p>\n

They transferred the money to him in September 2021 and the \u20ac4,000 was repaid in November 2022.<\/p>\n

Carey contacted another man \u2014 who had attended the same school \u2014 telling him he needed \u20ac120,000 to repay a debt to AIB.<\/p>\n

He said he was due a \u20ac1.8m claim from the HSE after receiving an excessive dose of radiation at St James\u2019 Hospital.<\/p>\n

Carey said that if he did not repay AIB in a few days, the deal was off.<\/p>\n

This man agreed to give Carey \u20ac120,000, making two transfers in late 2020. A repayment plan was agreed, but these repayments were not made.<\/p>\n

This man took a civil case against Carey and was awarded judgment for the outstanding amount, but this has not been repaid. He also challenged Carey in person.<\/p>\n

The court heard garda\u00ed obtained warrants to search a hotel in Kilkenny that Carey was staying in and his car in December 2022.<\/p>\n

Carey invited garda\u00ed into his room, handed over his car keys, phone, and PIN.<\/p>\n

A forensic examination of his phone identified text messages with some injured parties in which Carey requested financial assistance and referred to travelling to Seattle for cancer treatment.<\/p>\n

These messages also showed excuses Carey used for not repaying the money, including that he was in Seattle or that the banks were at fault.<\/p>\n

Notes were also found on the phone relating to the letters provided to Denis O\u2019Brien and his accountant in 2014 and 2015, which purported to be from a Seattle hospital.<\/p>\n

Colman Cody, defending, said the victim impact statements read to the court confront his client \u201cpersonally and directly with the effects of the offending\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the \u201cmost egregious\u201d element of the offending was that the people defrauded by his client either knew him personally or by reputation.<\/p>\n

Three testimonials were handed to the court. Counsel said these people, who were not named in court, did not condone Carey\u2019s behaviour, but were \u201chappy\u201d to record the more positive aspects of his character.<\/p>\n

Mr Cody submitted his client had met the case in an \u201chonourable manner\u201d and is \u201cunlikely to come before the courts in future\u201d.<\/p>\n

‘I was completely duped by DJ Carey’<\/p>\n

During the sentence hearing last Friday, the court heard Denis O\u2019Brien was defrauded of a total of \u20ac125,182<\/a> by Carey. The businessman said when someone tells you they are seriously ill with cancer and asks for your help, \u201cyou do not question their bona fides\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the claim of having cancer was \u201cunconscionable\u201d and described Carey\u2019s actions as \u201cextraordinarily deceitful, manipulative, and cunning\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe completely took advantage of my friendship,\u201d the businessman said, noting he and others in his office gave \u201csignificant support\u201d to Carey.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past 30 years, I\u2019ve received hundreds of requests from people and organisations seeking assistance,\u201d said Mr O\u2019Brien. \u201cI\u2019ve never been defrauded by anyone. To my embarrassment, I was completely duped by DJ Carey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another victim impact statement was read to the court by Thomas Butler, an accountant who became friendly with Carey through work.<\/p>\n

\"ThomasThomas Butler leaving the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin. Picture: Gareth Chaney\/PA Wire<\/p>\n

Mr Butler gave a total of \u20ac16,360 to Carey, after the hurler told him he needed treatment in the US.<\/p>\n

Evidence was heard that he genuinely believed Carey was in serious ill health.<\/p>\n

He also helped to draft emails and letters, intended to approach businesses asking for financial assistance for Carey. This process did not go ahead, the court heard, and no money was repaid to Mr Butler.<\/p>\n

Mr Butler said Carey took advantage of the fact he is \u201cregarded as a very generous individual\u201d. He said the deception made him look like a \u201cvery stupid or a very naive individual\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alert from a financial institution in the summer of 2022 was what sparked the investigation into DJ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[27,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-162111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115490941179256835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162111","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=162111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}