Match fixing charge, Chelmer

The Queensland Police Service’s Drug and Serious Crime Group in association with the Crime and Corruption Commission and the Victoria Police Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit have undertaken an investigation resulting in the arrest of a professional tennis player on charges of match fixing.
The investigation, which commenced in 2016, focused on a tennis match being played at the Challenger Tournament in Traralgon, Victoria where a number of suspicious bets were made.
The investigation led detectives to suspect that a number of people received information that the match would allegedly be fixed and subsequently placed bets through various betting agencies.
The CCC has conducted coercive hearings in relation to this investigation throughout 2017.
A 28-year-old Chelmer man, a professional tennis player, was today charged with facilitating match fixing in relation to the Traralgon match. He has also been charged with nine counts of supplying a dangerous drug and one offence of possess a dangerous drug.
He

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Police close down $30m cold call investment fraud syndicate

Police from State Crime Command have today closed an operation in relation to an alleged $30m cold call investment fraud syndicate involving approximately 2000 victims across Australia.
The two-year operation conducted by the Financial and Cyber Crimes Group focused on a syndicate operating primarily from the Gold Coast. The investigation received significant assistance from the Australian Taxation Office and the Crime and Corruption Commission.
Today officers from the group executed search warrants on residences and businesses on the Gold Coast, and one residence and business in Brisbane. Assistance was also provided by officers from the Australian Taxation Office, Office of Fair Trading and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Five people have been charged including four men aged in their 30’s and 40’s and a 41-year-old woman.
It is alleged the five arrested were either the principal players behind the scam or involved in the laundering of victims’ money.
The scam involved high pressure sales

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