child care fraud
not the first time I have heard of this going on...does not take certain groups long to catch onto how slack our system is
The alleged mastermind behind a $4 million day-care fraud syndicate had plans to defraud the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The company's director, Alee Farman, 49, was among 15 women and three men who were arrested yesterday during raids stretching from Fairfield to Wollongong in relation to the alleged syndicate.
Police said Mr Farman was originally from Iraq and became an Australian citizen in 2007.
Police said one woman arrested yesterday had $35,000 cash in her handbag, despite claiming Centrelink benefits.
I hope they deport them all.
make newcomers to this country wait at least 6 years before granting citizenship..cant get rid of these scum now if aussies
Hopefully they kept their dual citizenship
Seems there's always some scammer somewhere who takes mega advantage of government initiatives and policies, or the lack of them.
Pink batts, solar panels, so-called 'training colleges', tertiary education rip-offs, casual worker entitlements, aged care providers, home care scammers, so-called 'disrupters' like Uber and Foodora (who owes $8 million to former delivery workers, who will only receive 29 cents in the dollar) ... etc etc
They all give me the irrits.
Such greedy people.
It's so annoying, Governments of both flavours try to come up with schemes to help people and before they are even implemented there are people working out how they can scam them. It's easy to say we should have safeguards in place, but as soon as someone puts one in someone else finds a loophole.
At least this lot got caught, some get away with it pretty much forever.
Which brought to mind this story ...
From The London Times:
A Well-Planned Retirement
Outside England ‘s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For25 years,its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant.
The fees for cars ($1.40), for buses (about $7).
Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn’t show up; so the zoo management called the city council and asked it to send them another parking agent.
The council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the zoo’s own responsibility. The zoo advised the council that the attendant was a city employee.
The city council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the city payroll.
Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or France or Italy is a man who’d apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day — for25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over$7 milliondollars … and no one even knows his name.
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According to Snopes it isn't true, it was actually an April Fool's day prank story, but I kind of wish it was true. LOL.
Are these the sort of people Bill Shorten wants to give a pay rise?
Some scum with do ANYTHING for a quid --- what rotters!