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Councillor accused of offering $5 million to be made mayor – 25 September 2020
Cr Les Larke, a Bass Coast Shire councillor is the subject of a major corruption investigation over allegations he offered to spend up to $5 million of his private wealth on communities across South Gippsland, if five councillors nominated him as mayor.
Man charged with defrauding Commonwealth payments – 24 September 2020
The AFP arrested a 33-year-old Sydney man and charged him with multiple fraud offences for allegedly redirecting Commonwealth government payments to accounts controlled by him. It will be alleged the man stole identity information to then access Centrelink records to change the payment destination of a person’s payment into a bank account he controlled.
https://www.miragenews.com/man-charged-with-defrauding-commonwealth-payments/
Cyber hackers arrested for targeting bank customers – 24 September 2020
Two Sydney cyber hackers have been arrested and one of them charged, over trying to steal thousands of personal identities and large sums of money from unsuspecting bank and telco customers. They seized fake identity documents, $50,000 in cash in a safe, a money counter and methamphetamines.
Westpac’s $1.3b fine a ‘wake-up call’ for all banks – 24 September 2020
Westpac will pay a $1.3 billion penalty for breaching anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing laws. The bank admitted to 23 million breaches of the laws, including failing to report international transactions amounting to $11 billion and the insufficient monitoring of customers making suspicious transactions.
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