{"id":402585,"date":"2026-04-17T01:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402585\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:19:12","slug":"news-bank-of-ireland-returns-e474000-in-money-mule-funds-to-the-irish-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402585\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Bank of Ireland returns \u20ac474,000 in \u2018money mule\u2019 funds to the Irish State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>BANK of Ireland has returned \u20ac474,000 linked to \u201cmoney mule\u201d activity to the Irish State, following approval from the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>The bank said its Group Security team identified the funds in 2023 across 56 historic international fraud cases. Thescases, dating from 2012 to 2019, involved accounts that had received fraudulent transfers from foreign banks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/phone-tablet-desktop.png\" alt=\"AML Intelligence\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1034874810\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><br \/>\nSubscribe now to have unlimited access<\/p>\n<p class=\"amlpmp-content-message__description\">With our membership subscription, you will have unlimited access to the AML Intelligence site, updated daily with the latest analysis, opinion, and breaking news across the sector, newsletter delivered twice per week, access to our Global Bank Fines &amp; Penalties database, free access to Boardroom Series and more!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/membership-account\/membership-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View subscription options<\/a><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If you have an account, log in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent BANK of Ireland has returned \u20ac474,000 linked to \u201cmoney mule\u201d activity to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7863,2605,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-402585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bank-of-ireland","tag-banking","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402585","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=402585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}