Parish priest had €50,000 stolen from his bank account in scam, court told

A parish priest had almost €50,000 stolen from his personal back account in a scam after he tried to pay a connection fee for broadband through his banking online.

Kelvin Kleinovas (24) later allowed €10,000 of the cash that had been stolen from the priest’s account to be lodged into his own account.

Kleinovas, of Mayeston Green, St Margarets Road, Finglas, Dublin 11, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to having the proceeds of crime in his bank account in August 2019.

Garda Bartholomew McCarthy told Tessa White BL prosecuting that the priest reported the theft to gardaí after Bank of Ireland alerted him to the fact that they had frozen his account due to suspicious activity.

He said days earlier the priest received a call to the presbytery indicating that the caller was from a broadband company. He was told the line was being upgraded and the priest needed to pay a once-off fee of €5.

The priest was instructed to pay the fee online. He was told that when the…

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