Wesley Williams sentenced for €1.4m money laundering scheme

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Wesley Williams was sentenced to two and a half years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. He pleaded guilty to one count of making a gain for himself in a scheme involving €1.4 million transferred from German investors into an account shared with Silvio Rabbitte.

Judge Martin Nolan said Williams was at the higher end of misbehaviour and reduced a five-year headline sentence by 50 per cent. The court heard Williams had no previous convictions, pleaded early and was attending therapy addressing drug dependence.

Silvio Rabbitte received a fully suspended two-year sentence after pleading guilty to impeding Williams’s apprehension. Judge Nolan ordered him to forward €235,000 to victims; defence counsel said Rabbitte had been duped and acted recklessly.

The proceedings were reported on 7 February 2024.