Dubliner Stephen Keating, aka Stiofan Ceitinn, is at the centre of a major deportation row that has gripped Australia in recent days. Stephen Keating with his daughter Stephen Keating with his daughter An Irishman who was jailed for leading a €1.28m fraud gang has launched a new plea to be allowed stay in Austrlia saying he has “reformed my life”.
Dubliner Stephen Keating, aka Stiofan Ceitinn, is at the centre of a major deportation row that has gripped Australia in recent days. In 2020, Keating was sentenced to eight years in prison for leading a group of “predatory” fraudsters who duped more than 160 people out of Aus$2.1m (€1.
28m) over 18 months across Australia. Dubbed the ‘Irish Boys’, Keating headed up a ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ style cold-call scam operation from boiler rooms employing at least 45 people on Australia’s Gold Coast The gang convinced victims into paying around $18,000 each after telling them they would make up to $80,000 a year in profit. After he was released from prison in 2023, Keating had his visa to live in Australia reinstated under a new rule which gave greater weight to the 20 years he had lived in Australia, as well as his teenage daughter who was born there.
For 15 months, Keating openly lived and worked in Australia but was taken back into custody on June 13 by Border Force officials upon the Immigrant Minister’s instruction. He is now facing deportation back to Ireland. Writing on social media, Keating said: “I’ve alw.
