Lucan ghost insurance broker to carry out community service
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A man who acted as a “ghost broker” for his friends and acquaintances, giving false information to car insurance companies to get cheaper policies, has been ordered to carry out community service.
On Friday Vasile Braileanu (43) was ordered to carry out 240 hours of community service in lieu of a two year prison term for defrauding a number of motor insurance companies of about €13,000.
Braileanu, with an address at Adamstown Avenue, Lucan, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty to 15 fraud-related offences, including dishonestly inducing insurance companies to give policies at a reduced premiums and making, using and possessing false documents such as No Claims Discount and Experienced Driver certificates.
A man who acted as a âghost brokerâ for his friends and acquaintances, giving false information to car insurance companies to get cheaper policies, has been ordered to carry out community service.
Vasile Braileanu (43) was on Friday ordered to carry out 240 hours of community service in lieu of a two year prison term for defrauding a number of motor insurance companies of about â¬13,000.
Braileanu, of Adamstown Avenue, Lucan, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty to 15 fraud-related offences, including dishonestly inducing insurance companies to give policies at a reduced premiums and making, using and possessing false documents such as no claims discount and experienced driver certificates.
Two businessmen and an art teacher have been charged over a â¬6m âghost brokerâ motor insurance policy fraud.
Alexander Afanaschenko, 45,of Bewley Drive, in Lucan, Mikhail Yegorov, 38, of Charnwood Court, Clonsilla and Elena Olenik, 44, who lives in Berryfield, Finnstown, Lucan, Dublin were remanded on bail after they appeared before Judge Gerard Jones at Blanchardstown District Court on Thursaday.
It follows an investigation by the Garda Special Investigations Unit in Roads Policing Division based at Dublin Castle.
In excess of 2,500 motor insurance policies, valued â¬6m, were identified as having been fraudulently obtained from 10 insurance companies, Judge Jones was told.
The Director of Public Prosecutions directed trial on indictment in the Circuit Court. The three defendants, who have not yet indicated how they will plead, were ordered to appear again in July to be served with books of evidence and returned for trial.