Detectives from the State Crime Command’s Financial and Cyber Crime Group have arrested a 65-year-old Brisbane woman for money laundering following reports of business emails being compromised.
An investigation by the Queensland Police Service, with assistance from the Australian Federal Police, commenced in July 2020 as part of QPS Operation Sierra Convertible. Notifications to the national Report Cyber hotline identified businesses being subjected to email compromise offences.
It will be alleged the woman, an accountant, was identified offending by receiving varying funds in excess of $3.3million from a range of compromised businesses who had their email exchanges intercepted by hackers.
It will be alleged the woman regularly received funds into multiple bank accounts she had opened before distributing the funds overseas.
The woman was arrested yesterday following a search warrant being executed at her Carina home, where computers and mobile phones were seized.
As part of the investigation detectives located over 50 bank account details
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