A 21-year-old athlete from Roscommon town has avoided jail for money-laundering, after \u20ac16,500 was transferred into his bank account through criminal means.<\/p>\n
He immediately spent over \u20ac5,000 on luxury goods, including on an iPhone, TV, PlayStation, and three-piece suit.<\/p>\n
Roscommon Circuit Court heard Newcastle Construction Limited, from Newcastle, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, engaged another company \u2013 JF Hanley \u2013 for fencing work.<\/p>\n
The job finished in January 2025 and JF Hanley sought final payment.<\/p>\n
Newcastle Construction got an email to say JF Hanley\u2019s bank account details had changed.<\/p>\n
They ultimately transferred \u20ac16,500 into this account on February 21, 2025.<\/p>\n
But the court heard this account wasn\u2019t connected to JF Hanley and was that of Ismail Magomayev, from Ard na Ri, Racecourse Road, Roscommon town.<\/p>\n
The now 21-year-old immediately spent over \u20ac5,200 of the money, buying an Apple iPhone, a Samsung TV and a PlayStation and a three-piece suit.<\/p>\n
The remaining \u20ac11,245 was recalled by the bank.<\/p>\n
Four days later, on February 25, Magomayev went to the gardai and said he was a \u2018money-mule\u2019 for another party, from whom he said he was getting threats to his life.<\/p>\n
Newcastle Construction outlined the stress of being the victims of cyber-criminal fraud.<\/p>\n
Magomayev pleaded guilty to a money-laundering offence, apologised to Newcastle Construction, and said he\u2019d repay the money in full.<\/p>\n
Judge Kenneth Connolly said he was deeply unimpressed by his behaviour, saying he knew exactly what he was doing.<\/p>\n
He said his culpability was relatively low, but it was aggravated by the spending spree.<\/p>\n
He said he has no previous convictions and is very accomplished in mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n
The judge set a sentence of 18 months in prison, but said he\u2019d finalise sentencing in November.<\/p>\n
He said he\u2019d commute the prison term to 240 hours’ community service if several conditions were met by next June, including paying \u20ac6,000 to Newcastle Construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old athlete from Roscommon town has avoided jail for money-laundering, after \u20ac16,500 was transferred into his bank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,351391,785,85],"class_list":["post-725742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-ismail-magomayev","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}