Case studies

An identity thief and serial fraudster has been sentenced to 18 months for tax theft, identity theft, counterfeiting, and defrauding social security payments.

A NSW-based cleaner for the NDIS has been convicted of filing $1 million of fraudulent claims for services never provided.

A Queensland Tiktok mom has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for receiving and laundering fraudulent GST refunds claimed by her then abusive boyfriend.

Two leaders of a criminal syndicate were stripped of over $8.7 million in assets following a decade-long AFP-led investigation into a complex gold bullion GST fraud scheme.

An Australian Government Employee has been charged with spending public money on personal travel, and exploiting her position to corruptly offer a foreign national an Australian entry visa.

An employee of the Australian Border Force has been charged alongside underworld figures for facilitating cocaine smuggling.

A woman was charged with laundering $7 million gained in illicit tobacco trade through fraudulent mortgages.

Police have arrested a high school principal and his brother in law, on charges of embezzling $1.4m of public funds earmarked for public school works.

Six people have been sentenced to a combined maximum term of 43 years imprisonment for their part in a $10 million tax fraud and money laundering operation.

A Victorian woman has been sentenced to three years and six months’ imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 20 months, for defrauding the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) of $452,000 and attempting to swindle a further $245,000 across a 15-month period.