Posted by Revealed: The cheque forgery that brought down Catriona Carey
‘It was like something a child would do. I don’t know how it got that far’
February 27 2022 02:30 AM
The cheque looked like the work of a five-year-old. The ‘C’ was untouched. The ‘o’ became an ‘a’. The space between the two ‘l’s had been shaded in to make a fat-stemmed T. And so on until the words “Collector General” became “Catriona Carey” — but only if you didn’t look too closely.
“Holy shit,” said Nigel Kenny, as he stood in his local AIB branch in Kilkenny, examining the crude work of forgery.
Convicted swindler ran up a litany of unpaid debts
February 27 2022 02:30 AM
The Garda National Economic Crime Bureau expects to receive at least 30 formal complaints from all over the country about former Irish international hockey player Catriona Carey.
Carey was accused in an RTÉ Investigates documentary of conning mortgage holders in arrears out of tens of thousands of euros in an elaborate refinancing scam.
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