‘Charity’ clothes collector admits to keeping profits

Date Published: 09-Dec-2008

A LITHUANIAN man who owns a second-hand clothes collecting business that purports to be a charity is using sophisticated literature to lure unsuspecting Galway householders into donating clothes for the Third World that he then sells for a profit, the Sentinel has learned.
Householders throughout the city and county have in the past week been targeted with leaflets that appeal for “unwanted clothing . . . that will be sent to Ukraine, Africa and some other countries.”
However, the Sentinel has discovered that the collector is a registered business, Viltis, based in Tipperary and not a charity as householders are led to believe.