Financial Crime Squad detectives have charged a third man over alleged fraud and corruption offences against the NSW Department of Education.
Investigators found an employee had assistance from another man known to him, the director of a building company, to facilitate the fraudulent claims.
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In December 2024, police charged two men who remain before the courts.
Further investigations revealed a third man was also involved in creating inflated invoices for minor building and maintenance work.
About 9.10am on Wednesday 5 March, a 55-year-old man was arrested at Bankstown Police Station.
The man was charged with dishonestly obtain financial advantage etc by deception. He was also charged with 26 counts of corruptly give/offer to agent benefit (over $2,000 and less than $5,000)
He was granted conditional bail to appear in Parramatta Local Court on Thursday 3 April 2025.
Police will allege in court between November 2021 and November 2022, the man helped inflate invoices to the value of $622,000, which was fraudulently claimed from the Department of Education.
The man received approximately $352,262 of the fraudulently obtained funds.
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