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Police have laid fraud charges against a number of people, alleging that they dishonestly claimed government payments intended for bushfire victims.
Many of the alleged offenders are said to have links to the Rebels bikie gang.
Six men, aged from 25 to 32, and three women, aged 26 to 37, were arrested as part of a two-day operation throughout western Sydney.
It is alleged the group claimed $700,000 through a NSW Government grant scheme.
Alleged Bushfire Fraud
After the bushfires in early 2020, the NSW Government began a scheme offering relief grants of up to $40,000.
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One in an occasional series about Philadelphia’s unchecked gun violence. Every trip outside the house for Jackee Nichols brings a new reminder of the pain. Nichols is from a part of South Philadelphia that has been embroiled in a shooting conflict for as long as anyone can remember. In October 2018, that violence claimed her 15-year-old grandson. Police believe he was gunned down for living on the wrong block but, like most shootings in Philadelphia, no one has been charged in the crime. Now Nichols faces the daily torment of living among the people she suspects killed her grandson, Rasul Benson, leaving trauma to resurface in unexpected moments.