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Reporter accused of taking cash in blackmail conspiracy Veteran television reporter Steve Barrett is accused of receiving up to $3000 cash for his alleged role in a blackmail conspiracy.
Crime by Natalie O’Brien, Senior Reporter 8th Apr 2021 7:43 PM
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Subscriber only Veteran television reporter Steve Barrett is accused of receiving up to $3000 cash for his alleged role in a blackmail conspiracy designed to reap $5 million from a group of alleged payroll fraudsters. The NSW Supreme Court was told on Thursday Mr Barrett, with two co-accused Daniel Hausman and Daniel Rostankovski, was part of a joint criminal enterprise hatched in February 2017 to demand money from the fraudsters allegedly behind a large-scale tax fraud involving the son of the then ATO deputy commissioner.
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Taxpayers have clawed back almost $16 million in assets from one of the architects of the massive Plutus Payroll tax fraud.
Australian Federal Police confiscated five properties, three vehicles, funds from multiple bank accounts, investment accounts and shareholdings as well as several luxury items including watches from Plutus Payroll founder Simon Anquetil following his sentencing last year.
One of the three luxury Infiniti cars that belonged to Plutus founder Simon Anquetil.
The 38-year-old Liverpool man was sentenced to five years’ jail without parole for his part in the $105 million tax fraud, which also allegedly involved the son of the former deputy tax commissioner.
It s a trial with all the hallmarks of a great blockbuster
movie.
Two siblings, Adam and Lauren Cranston, whose father is the
former deputy commissioner of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO),
along with lawyer Dev Menon and referrer Jay Onley, are on trial after pleading not guilty to
being involved in scheme that defrauded the Commonwealth of more
than $105 million between March 2014 and May 2017.
Over a dozen charged
More than a dozen people were charged in relation to the alleged tax
fraud in 2017, and four have already been sentenced for
their involvement in the scheme.
Authorities have described the operation as one of the
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