Detectives from the Fraud and Cybercrime Squad have arrested and charged a man with nine offences as part of an ongoing investigation into major fraud and identity theft. Earlier this year (2014), the Fraud and Cybercrime Squad formed Strike Force Wilmot to investigate a NSW-based syndicate involved in organised identity theft and fraud. Detectives will allege that on 1 May this year, a man entered a bank in North Sydney and deceived bank staff by falsely claiming that he was a legitimate customer of the institution and needed to access his term deposit account. Having used a number of fraudulent documents to convince bank staff that he was the legitimate account holder, the man was granted access to the term deposit account. Over the course of the next few hours, he and others transferred and withdrew more than $300,000 out of the account. In late May, the legitimate account holder notified the bank that he had not accessed his account and had in fact been robbed. The matter was referred to police and detectives from the Fraud and Cybercrime Squad commenced an investigation. Around 2pm yesterday (Wednesday 1 October 2014), detectives arrested a 19-year-old Belfield man at Day Street Police Station in Sydney’s CBD. The man was charged with nine counts of recklessly deal with the proceeds of crime and one count of participate in criminal group. He was granted conditional bail to appear at the Downing Centre Local Court on 22 October 2014. In court, detectives will allege the man was one of a number of people involved in the identity theft and fraud and played an active role in withdrawing and transferring more than $175,000 of the stolen money. The investigation by Strike Force Wilmot continues. To date, nine people (including the 19-year-old Belfield man) have been arrested and charged as a result of police inquiries. Police are urging anyone with information about fraud to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://nsw.crimestoppers.au/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 01:04:42 +0000
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