A Sydney accountant has been charged with using his professional position to facilitate criminal activity for a prominent organised crime network.
The accountant, 43, is allegedly responsible for facilitating money laundering and fraud on behalf of members of the crime group through his tax practice.
Following extensive inquiries, about 9.50am on Tuesday May 13, detectives executed a search warrant at a taxation office in Sydney’s CBD.
During the search, police located a number of both physical and electronic financial records relating to members of the OCN.
The man was taken to Burwood Police Station, where he was charged with two counts of publish etc false misleading material to obtain advantage and two counts of make false document to obtain financial advantage etc.
He was granted conditional bail and appeared in Burwood Local Court on Tuesday 17 June.
Days later, a 30-year-old man was issued a Future Court Attendance Notice charged with dishonestly obtain property by deception.
Police will allege in court the 30-year-old man orchestrated a false mortgage application for a property worth over $1 million to disguise himself as the beneficiary of the property.
The man is due to appear before Parramatta Local Court on Wednesday 30 July.
