Stephen Roche ordered to repay €750.000 after fraud

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Monday, 02 May 2022 at 14:30
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Stephen Roche, former winner of the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, World championships and many more races, was the owner of a cycling tourism company in Mallorca, and has been ordered to repay €750.000 which he took in the past.
Extra.ie reported that the former Irish rider was found guilty of negligently bankrupting his business firm and using the stolen money to finance a luxury lifestyle. He's been ordered to repay €750.000 as a consequence, and faces the risk of criminal prosecution.
The case judge has confirmed that "Mr Roche was perfectly conscious of its debt situation. And instead of adopting measures to avoid financing the company, or entering into voluntary insolvency, he continued to loot the company accounts for his own private use when there was a minimum amount of income in them."
"Mr Roche’s sumptuous expenditure on things like golf, apartment rentals, hotels in Switzerland and Hungary, restaurants, clothes stores and fashion houses like LOEWE, evidence a life of luxury and spending while his creditors weren’t paid," he added.
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Mistermaumau 02 November 2024 at 20:17+ 3830

Weird that a Google search with just the name shows nothing, you’d think this would rapidly create as much coverage as Bradley’s situation did.

Anyone know more?

BillyBasso 02 November 2024 at 20:57+ 82

Search for the company involved, Shamrock Events SL.

Given it is the Irish Times, it should be reliable. Also consider that unlike Bradley who until recently really worked to be the next Beckham, Roche is not as well known these days.

Mistermaumau 02 November 2024 at 23:13+ 3830

Thanks,

Obviously outside cycling he’s faded from the public eye but he has a platform and we are regularly reminded here.

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