Cork man pleads guilty to 210 charges of fraudulent claiming of invalidity pension
Judge David Waters sent the case forward for sentencing at Cork Circuit Criminal Court commencing on October 27.
More than 200 charges of theft by the fraudulent claiming of invalidity pension for more than four years were admitted today by a 55-year-old Cork man.
Garda Raphael Liston charged Nicholas Mulcahy of 17 Glencree Crescent, Mayfield, Cork, with a total of 210 charges brought under the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act.
The accused appeared before Cork District Court where his solicitor Shane Collins-Daly said that a book of evidence would not be required and that the defendant would enter signed pleas of guilty today to all charges.
Most of the charges refer to a weekly amount varying from €347 to €386, and a smaller number of charges refer to the payment in fortnightly form.
The period of offending was from May 2019 to October 2023 and the total loss to the Department of Social Protection exceeded €86,000.
On the application of Sergeant John Dineen, Judge David Waters sent the case forward for sentencing at Cork Circuit Criminal Court commencing on October 27.
The facts of the case that gave rise to the large number of charges will be given at the sentencing hearing in the circuit court.
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