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Money mule recruiter jailed for role in €100k invoice redirection scam

Date
2025-11-18

Stage
Sentence

Primary locality
Letterkenny

County
Donegal

Summary

Adeleke Adelani, 27, of Riverside View, Lower Main Street, Letterkenny, Co Donegal, has been sentenced to a consecutive 21-month prison term for laundering €100,397 in criminal cash in November 2019 and in January 2020, and for laundering the proceeds of crime on dates between October 2018 and February 2021. Adelani pleaded guilty to these charges. The court heard that €124,000 passed through his bank accounts, with only €3,500 accounted for, primarily from social welfare payments. The State's case is that Adelani was not involved in setting up the invoice redirection scams but was a recruiter for money mule bank accounts to facilitate the thefts. The court heard that the money ended up in the bank account of a 41-year-old Dublin woman who received a suspended prison sentence in March 2022. Adelani admitted to withdrawing cash and purchasing high-value items. Gardai found 50 images of other people's bank accounts on his phone. Adelani has previous convictions for assault, false imprisonment, burglary, and production of an article. He is currently serving a partially suspended seven-year sentence with a release date in November 2029. The judge stated that Adelani was 'up to his neck in money laundering' and that he was procuring bank accounts for substantial rewards. The 21-month sentence will run consecutive to his existing sentence.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Money mule recruiter jailed for role in €100k invoice redirection scam. Charges or matters: laundering €100,397 in criminal cash in November 2019 and in January 2020; laundering the proceeds of crime on dates between October 2018 and February 2021. Procedural stage: sentence

When:

November 2019 Other
January 2020 Other
October 2018 Other
February 2021 Other
June 13, 2022 Incident
October 2019 Hearing Or Sentence
March 2022 Hearing Or Sentence
July 2022 Incident
November 2029 Incident
2025-11-18 Publication

Why: Garda Michael Moran told Caroline Cummings BL, prosecuting, that in November 2019 a man who was having a house built in Ballinteer, Co Cork requested bank details from his builder by email in order to make a final stage payment. CNI source report

Case subjects

Adeleke Adelani

Defendant

Charges: laundering €100,397 in criminal cash in November 2019 and in January 2020; laundering the proceeds of crime on dates between October 2018 and February 2021 (Admitted)

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: This money ended up in the bank account of a 41-year-old Dublin woman who in March 2022 received a suspended prison sentence. He sentenced Adelani to a 21-month prison term to run consecutive to the sentence he is currently serving, which expires in 2029.