{"id":330820,"date":"2026-03-05T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330820\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:40:11","slug":"priest-had-almost-e50000-stolen-from-personal-account-by-scammers-in-online-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330820\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest had almost \u20ac50,000 stolen from personal account by scammers in online fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Cleric has not been reimbursed by his bank, court hears, as man spared jail\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kelvin Kleinovas of Mayeston Green, St Margaret's, Finglas, Dublin. Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/24dd6b4f-78fa-498f-8dfc-21aa5ea3665a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kelvin Kleinovas of Mayeston Green, St Margaret&#8217;s, Finglas, Dublin. Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A parish priest had nearly \u20ac50,000 \u00adstolen from his personal bank account in a scam after he tried to pay a connection fee for broadband through online banking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The priest told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court he believes the bank failed him as a customer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleric has not been reimbursed by his bank, court hears, as man spared jail Kelvin Kleinovas of Mayeston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45,7863,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-330820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-bank-of-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}