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This story on page 9 of the Racing Post should make certain parties in Irish racing hang their heads in shame.Sadly I doubt it.Only a matter of time before a childrens charity or such is the victim here.Might see some action then.Quite disturbing the Gardai never object to the licence of these people.
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Fascinating to see how long it went on ...Makes you wonder just WHO is in control of these firms..
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Heard stories a few staff locally were given the bullet for similar things but on a much smaller scale.
Absolutely astonishing he was allowed get away with it for so long, and I like the reference the article makes to Paddys knowing full well he was a Spoils manager and doing fk all to alert them.  Biggest joke of all is the suspended sentence though. |
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A former manager of **** bookmakers at Castle St in Cork stole almost €600,000 from the shop and gambled most of it through Paddy Power’s website.
Detective Garda Padraig Harrington yesterday said Paddy Power became so concerned about the extent of the gambling by Ronan Crowley, aged 33, of Carrig Downs, Carrigtwohill, that it investigated it internally and refused to take any more bets from him. The detective said Paddy Power did not notify management at **** of the matter. The 236 separate thefts, where Crowley failed to lodge shop cash receipts into the company’s main account any day on which he was working over a 22-month period, were eventually discovered by his employers, but not before he had stolen €590,810. The chances of the gambling addict repaying any money was described by the detective as zero. He gambled every day, blowing €398,000 with Paddy Power online. Det Garda Harrington said that because of the scale of gambling by an individual, they are required to investigate the source of the money. When Paddy Power contacted him, it was told by Crowley that he had inherited the cash. “They (Paddy Power) failed to notify ****. They knew he was a manger at ****,” the detective said. James Duggan, defending, said that if the matter had been detected earlier, Crowley would have had some chance of dealing with it. He said that like a lot of gamblers, his hope was that he would have a big win, drive to Drogheda to pay it all back, and then resign from the job. Instead the offence was detected, the gardaí called to him, and he subsequently co-operated with the investigation. Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a five-year jail sentence on Crowley, but suspended it in its entirety. The judge said: “This is a truly extraordinary case. In excess of half a million euro was stolen from **** over almost two years, a significant breach of trust. “It beggars belief that a company like **** are so disorganised in their set-up they did not know this was going on for almost two years — a man entrusted to make lodgements was not making the lodgements. “One would expect this would be picked up overnight or within a week in a properly-run business. “Paddy Power knew or suspected there was something wrong and had the accused as a monitored customer and seemed to be slow in either reporting it or detecting it. Again that is quite extraordinary.” The charges state that Crowley stole varying sums from ****, Castle St, on dates between November 19, 2011, and September 2 2013. |
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*Spoilsports
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Controls did not pick up that no cash was lodged on "any" day? Heaven help us.
Seems the judge spent the time being scathing of bookmaker controls and rightly so, but the individual needs to take responsibility for his own actions as well and there seems to be little reference to that in the below. |
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just shows me how much money these big firms are making
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Mate of mine went in yesterday asked for 50e/w a 10/1 shot , they told him he could have 20 e/w , turned out it was a winner , he had the rest on with baddies , yet one of their own can wipe their eye for over half a million and they don't even know ...
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