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Sandra Mallon

Gardai probe alleged €2m fraud at Rosanna Davison’s dad-in-law’s arcade

Gardai are investigating the alleged €2million fraud at Rosanna Davison’s father-in-law’s slot machine empire, the Irish Mirror can reveal.

Sources have confirmed officers are probing the alleged swindle at Dublin Pool and Juke Box Ltd, which operates Dr Quirkey’s Good Time Emporium on O’Connell Street.

Accounts for the company, which is owned by Richard Quirke, showed alleged misappropriation of funds totalled €1.017million in 2019 and €1.009million in 2018.

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It is not known how the fraud was committed but the amounts missing have been written off.

Mr Quirke, 75, whose son Wes is married to Rosanna, is a former garda who built his fortune in the leisure industry.

He holds shareholder funds totalling €33.6million with most of the company’s wealth concentrated in property with a book value of €34.3million at the end of June 2019.

But in a shock discovery, the newly filed 2019 accounts reveal “in December 2020, the company discovered it was the subject of a fraud”.

The breakdown of the 2019 scam is €887,000 under alleged “misappropriation of cash” and alleged “misappropriated bank payments” totalling €130,190. Under the heading of ‘exceptional items’ the breakdown of the cost of the alleged fraud in 2018 is €912,000 under alleged “misappropriation of cash” and €97,203 under alleged “misappropriated bank payments”.

A note attached to the “exceptional item” stated the directors uncovered a financial fraud by fraudulent bank payments.

After it was discovered “a thorough and comprehensive forensic investigation led by external financial consultants into the company’s systems and processes was carried out”.

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