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Thursday, 28 February 2008
Investigations by a covert security team at Limerick’s largest employers, Dell Computers, has cracked an internet robbery trail leading from its plant in Raheen to Hungary in Eastern Europe, the Limerick Independent exclusively reports.

A Hungarian national was brought before Limerick District Court in recent days and convicted of stealing computer processors from Dell, where the man was an employee.

Tamas Molnar, with an address at Treaty Terrace, Thomondgate was arrested after Gardai carried out a planned search of his home and discovered the computer components.

The items were seized by Gardai from the Roxboro Road Crime Office on foot of a warrant after security staff at Dell passed on intelligence.

10 Intel Pentium Processors were taken from the house by Gardai, which the accused man admitted to having in his possession in court.

According to Gardai, the computer parts were worth up to €2,000, which the arrested man had been stealing from Dell and selling onto parties in his home country of Hungary over the Internet.
Recently a number of employees at the plant have been arrested and convicted before the courts for stealing materials from Dell.

Gardai confirmed to the Limerick Independent that over the past few months a team of security staff at the Raheen plant have been working closely with Gardai based at Roxboro Road Garda Station on the south side of the City to tackle in-house robberies at the computer firm.

“Security in Dell carried out investigations and they believed this man was selling the computer parts over the Internet in Hungary.  He was arrested and questioned by Gardai and made admissions to Gardai,” a Garda spokesman told the Limerick Independent.

Detective Garda Dave Bourke told Limerick District Court that there had been a lengthy investigation by security staff at Dell into Mr Molnar’s activities.

Mr Molnar, who was represented in court by defence solicitor, John Devane, pleaded guilty before the court and was fined €250 under the Theft Act.

As well as receiving a fine from the court, Mr Molnar was also let go from his job at Dell.



Over the past number of months a number of Dell workers have been brought before the courts charged in connection with stealing from the plant.

The computer parts plant said it would continue to crack down against in-house robberies and that anyone involved in the illegal activity would face the full rigours of the law.


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