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Fair Trading
NSW Fair Trading has successfully prosecuted two persons regarding fraudulent activities in the construction industry.
Southwestern Sydney company Ciampa Constructions director Pasqualino Ciampa has been sentenced to 15 months imprisonment to be served by way of Intensive Correction Order (ICO), 180 hours community service and fined $7,500 for using a false insurance certificate to obtain work worth more than $770,000. The company was also convicted for receiving payments for work without insurance and fined $7,500.
In an unrelated prosecution, Zakaria Kassar of Greenacre has also been convicted on two charges of using a false referee reports to obtain a builder’s licence. He received a two-year community corrections order, 80 hours of community service and a $2,000 fine.
A Sydney man posing as a builder has been sentenced to imprisonment and fined after contracting to do almost $260,000 in work while he was unlicensed and.
A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 years and five months’ jail for his involvement in planning to import over 500 kilograms of cocaine into Australia via the Solomon Islands in 2018.