Chilimbar Vasile of Sarsfield Road, Wilton, Cork, was caught with AIB bank card for account in someone else’s name through which €228,474 passed over four yearsGardaí found live CCTV footage on Chilimbar Vasile’s phone showing a huge house in his native Romania where a large volume of notes and coins in multiple denominations was being counted on a kitchen table. Inquires through Interpol confirmed he owned the house but there was no mortgage on it.
Chilimbar Vasile of Eagle Valley, Sarsfield Road, Wilton, Cork, was caught by gardaí on January 25th, 2021, with an AIB bank card for an account in someone else’s name and upon examination of the account, gardaí established that €228,474 passed through the account between 2017 and 2021. Last week, Vasile pleaded guilty to a money-laundering charge which stated that on September 24th, 2019, he transferred the proceeds of criminal conduct, namely money, to an AIB account in another name, knowing or being reckless as to whether it was the proceeds of crime.
Judge Colin Daly had remanded Vasile to appear at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on Wednesday for sentence and he recalled the evidence given by Det Garda David Kelleher that Vasile was in receipt of €455 per week in disability allowance and had received rent allowance of €164,000 over several years.