2024-04-24
Fraudster jailed for role in €160k scam on finance companies
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Cullen is the second contractor in the space of a month to be jailed for the offence of deception, as part of a major cross-border probe into scams involving the leasing of heavy plant machinery. At a sitting of Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today, Judge Martin Nolan set a headline sentence of five years for Thomas Cullen, commenting: "He knew what he was doing." Judge Nolan said Cullen was probably unlikely to reoffend and acknowledged that there were others in the background of the scheme.