2024-06-11
IT consultant who failed to pay €180k in VAT sent to jail after suspended sentence deemed too lenient
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: A wholly suspended sentence was imposed after Gargan entered guilty pleas to eight counts, with the balance of the counts taken into consideration. The State had appealed the leniency of the three-year suspended sentence imposed by sentencing judge Ms Justice Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on December 15, 2023, arguing that too much weight had been given to the mitigating factors in the case.