The Garda National Economic Crime Bureau has uncovered a scam whereby organised crime gangs managed to claim the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) using PPS numbers of essential workers without their consent.

Lordan said that gangs were stealing PPS numbers using malicious software, although the force had also encountered cases of people passing databases of employee details to criminals. Most of those involved in the fraud are thought to be foreign criminals, along with a small number of Irish citizens.

Initial garda inquiries suggest the fraudsters obtained some months ago the PPS numbers of essential workers, which they have used to harvest pandemic payments ever since. Essential workers would not have been likely to claim the PUP, which ranges from €200 to €350 a week.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3c58d4ac-844b-11eb-87b3-57c13ebd5dfe

It was previously reported that migrant NGOs had bragged they had successfully lobbied the government not to share details of covid relief payments to migrants across departments making it more difficult to monitor fraud and consequently millions of Euro was being lost each week.

https://www.politicalirish.com/threads/ngos-lobbied-the-govt-not-to-share-details-of-covid-payments-to-migrants-across-departments-now-millions-of-euro-is-being-lost-every-week.36395/

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Roma caught shoplifting in Supervalu, in Donabate, Dublin but are let go by security.

The two women used a common tactic of hooking products under their long, pleated skirts, specifically designed for concealing stolen goods.

I hope the store staff dumped whatever they stole and didn't put it back on the shelves.

A local man followed them in his car:

"Just wondering whatcha doing robbin' in Donabate? What's the gig? Finger up to me, is it? Ah yeah, that's great. That's brilliant stuff."

https://twitter.com/RealMessageEire/status/1371184120550862855?s=20

Gardaí have put out an appeal to the public for information to help catch a pair of two armed assailants of strictly no description who jumped a man in St Anne's Park.

You get the feeling they don't really want to catch these people.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-assault-stannespark-raheny-gardai-20175572

If Conor Pope is reading this, please look away now as Nigerians have been caught scamming money again.

Wonder if the Indo will get charged with hate-criming for printing this.

https://www.independent.ie/news/significant-arrest-of-recruiter-and-account-controller-in-10m-fraud-probe-40198959.html

https://t.me/OrlaredChan/1634

A man and a woman lead Gardai on a high-speed M50 chase after an alleged robbery at a South Dublin pharmacy.

The pair in the car failed to stop for Gardai who tried to pull them over after a Dundrum chemist was apparently robbed on Monday afternoon.

The car sped away from Gardai and was chased onto the M50 before diving off at the Ballymun exit.

There's no mention of kids being involved in this report but it looks like two are removed from the back seat.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/pair-lead-gardai-high-speed-20177383

One of the scariest things on the subway in New York...wait for it...😂

Stunning compliment from TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

'Organised, powerful and well-funded mob of miniscule, irrelevant, racists with no support.'

Getting a lot of mixed messages from the shitlibs these days.

Notice how this conspiracy theorist disparages people who focus on George Soros' influence in European politics but 30 seconds later she's directing people to his website for information. 🤪

High priest of wokeism Aodhán Ó Ríordáin discussing the concept of original sin.

Ireland's problem for him is we don't have an original sin to guilt the Irish people with so he's developed an alternative sin of "chip on the shoulder stuff" to compensate (which could never be applied to non-Europeans of course).

Aodhán on fusing the state with his religion to combat the heretics.

"So I think the state needs to attach to every grant, to every piece of legislation an anti-racist ethic so you can't get a grant from the sports council, you can't get a grant from enterprise Ireland, you can't a grant from anybody unless you're going to up your game."

Dee Wall asking former TD Ruth Coppinger if she'll do a protest for all the people who've committed suicide due to the lockdown in Ireland seeing as she's back on the streets protesting in response to a woman who was murdered in London despite the lockdown regulations.

http://overdeewall.com/2021/03/16/dee-wall-questions-coppinger-at-the-spire-and-demands-garda-to-stand-under-their-oath-on-o-connell-street/

Coppinger's car crash interview on Newstalk yesterday.

A “Council for Civil Liberties” spokesperson was on Newstalk earlier saying this didn't technically count as a protest and was just a show of solidarity with the people in London. Because of course... civil liberties begin where the liberal status quo ordains.

The arguments put forward in defence of the protest could have applied to thousands of other causes. This one just happened to be fashionable. You know you have a fashionable cause when the media takes you at your word.

Naturally the organisers, “socialist feminist group Rosa” fully back an atomised, fractured, low-trust, post-national, multicultural Ireland. Does anyone really believe that Rosa's vision for this country will be safer for women or anyone else?

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