Gardai have been 'overwhelmed' with complaints from the public against the GAA legend accused of taking millions from people in a fake cancer scam.
Many of the victims contacted investigating officers by phone weeks ago but have yet to be interviewed to make a full formal statement because there are so many of them. It is understood the investigation team have been inundated with complaints from members of the public, many of whom say they lost some of their personal life savings.
All say they gave the individual money as a loan and the sums involved range from €5,000 to €200,000. One man who lost €10,000 said: "I spoke at length to one of the gardai involved weeks ago and outlined exactly what happened.
