2023-03-07 · Dublin
Home buyer lost most of their deposit after emails hacked, while money mule booked holiday
Christian Preston, aged 22, was sentenced by Judge Martin Nolan to a two‑year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to possessing €37,000 of proceeds of crime. The money had been transferred to his account when a home buyer's deposit was hacked during an email exchange with the buyer's solicitor in December 2019. Preston withdrew and spent…