by admin | Dec 14, 2018 | News & Analysis
Zenik brokers who made nearly $1 billion in home loans for the big four banks and Macquarie Bank, has been found to make fraudulent mortgage applications using fake bank statements and signatures, fictitious jobs and fabricated payslips and letters of employment....
by admin | Dec 14, 2018 | News & Analysis
Extortion emails demanding recipients send $US20,000 in Bitcoin to a particular Bitcoin address, state that failure to send the payment would result in that person’s workplace being blown up by an explosive device....
by admin | Dec 14, 2018 | News & Analysis
Tisha Thi Thi Phan who was the operator of an optometry business in south-west Sydney has been jailed for at least three years for defrauding Medicare by more than $4 million. He submitted almost 30,000 claims for more than 49,000 optometry services that were not...
by admin | Dec 13, 2018 | News & Analysis
US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison for a string of offences, including campaign law violations he said he committed at Trump’s direction....
by admin | Dec 13, 2018 | News & Analysis
The public’s insatiable use of technology has evolved into the perfect crime-fighting tool, creating “a web of surveillance”. Police can now check location information from a suspect’s fitness tracker or smartphone to see if they were near a crime...
by admin | Dec 12, 2018 | News & Analysis
Fraud squad police have raided the home of NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn’s former chief of staff Rosemary Rogers, as part of a bribery investigation sparked by an internal bank whistleblower. Ms Rogers is being investigated as part of a wider probe involving...
