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Police charge two over separate corporate frauds – SCC Financial Crimes Squad – 3 June 2019
A man and a woman have been charged over alleged separate frauds against the same financial institution totalling more than $500,000. They allegedly fraudulently lodged reimbursements and transactions from the institution’s internal accounts to personal accounts and will appear in court.
Former newsreader Simone Semmens denies $1.8m tax fraud – 3 June 2019
Simone Semmens, a former television newsreader has denied she deliberately withheld more than $1.8 million in GST payments during a lucrative 10 year career of property development in Melbourne.
Bank manager hid employee’s fraud to hide his own $500,000 fraud, police say – 3 June 2019
A senior manager at the Commonwealth Bank, who stole almost half a million dollars (to fund a gambling habit), decided not to report a member of his team for fraudulently transferring an alleged $64,000 to her personal account, just in case his own fraud was discovered.
Almost 100,000 Australians’ private details exposed in attack on Westpac’s PayID – 3 June 2019
The private details of almost 100,000 Australian bank customers have been exposed in a cyber-attack on the real-time payments platform PayID. PayID allows the instant transfer of money between banks using either a mobile number or an email address. There is a risk that the stolen data could be used for fraud on a mass scale.
