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Central Bank of Ireland fines Swilly Mulroy Credit Union for reckless AML/CFT and risk management breaches over non-member cash lodgement service; penalty under updated Administrative Sanctions Procedure

Published on: 28 July 2025

Published by a LexisNexis Ireland - Banking & Financial Services expert
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Article summary

On 1 July 2025, the Central Bank of Ireland (Central Bank) imposed a €36,273 penalty on Swilly Mulroy Credit Union (SMCU) for infringements of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 (CJ(MLTF)A 2010) and the Credit Union Act 1997 (CUA 1997), spanning seven and a half years...

Facts of the case

SMCU has been authorised as a credit union since 1985. It acknowledged seven prescribed contraventions linked to anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) and deficiencies in risk management, resolved under the relatively new Undisputed Facts Settlement Process, which included a more extensive summary of the principal facts set out below...

The breaches were uncovered by the Central Bank in 2022 during an on‑site inspection carried out by its Anti-Money Laundering Division. The Central Bank then opened an enforcement investigation in 2023...

Between 2 January 2014 and 30 June 2021, SMCU operated a practice of seeking and receiving cash lodgements from natural persons and local cash‑intensive businesses, most of whom were not members of the credit union and therefore did not hold accounts with it...

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