A former Anglo Irish Bank employee who stole over €600,000 from his friends and family has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.
Stephen Keogh, 48, persuaded various people to invest money in high interest accounts, while actually lodging the money in his own account and providing false documents to hide his thefts.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the accused had “essentially created a fiction that he was far more successful than he in fact was” and stole the money because he was “living way beyond his means”.
Keogh, of The Lawn, Athlumney Abbey, Navan, Co Meath, pleaded guilty to stealing a total of €611,139.35 from seven victims at various locations in Co Dublin and Co Meath on dates between May 15, 2002 and April 27, 2010.
Det Gda John Trimble told Fionnuala O’Sullivan, prosecuting, that Keogh persuaded various people including his mother-in-law, his sister-in-law and an old friend to invest large amounts of money in high interest bank accounts with Anglo Irish Bank.
Judge Martin Nolan said Keogh’s moral culpability was high and he behaved in an entirely devious way. After passing the sentence, he addressed Keogh directly to say he has “made life miserable for a lot of people”.
