By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A Noble Park man is accused of snatching elderly women’s handbags as he rode unlicensed aboard a scooter in a Dandenong Plaza car park.
Ali Ramazan, 23, sought a sentencing indication at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on 27 April on a string of charges including two ride-away thefts and an aggravated burglary while on bail.
In the first theft, Ramazan allegedly rode up to a 73-year-old pushing a shopping trolley and snatched her bag in the McCrae Street car park on 21 August.
According to police, the victim fell to the ground as she tried to grab Ramazan, who fled the scene with her handbag and the $1000 cash inside.
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton has ordered a review into a police investigation that dismissed allegations of a corrupt forced shutdown of I Cook Foods.
Mr Patton launched the review on Friday 23 April after being urged to “personally intervene” in a letter-of-complaint from ICF director Ian Cook.
Mr Cook claimed the criminal investigation into Greater Dandenong Council and the Department of Health had been “derailed by political interference”.
The review will be conducted by a police detective superintendent and overseen by an assistant commissioner.
The matter has been referred to the police’s Professional Standards Command.
Ex-broker pleads guilty, fined for fraud
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A former finance broker at a used car dealership has been fined after pleading guilty to four charges of obtaining a financial advantage by deception.
Former Victoria-based finance broker Vaughn Thomas Hopkins appeared at the Dandenong Magistrates’ Court and pleaded guilty to the charges, which were contrary to section 82 (1) of the Crimes Act 1958 (Victoria).
The charges have followed an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) into Mr Hopkins’ conduct between 2014 and 2015 while he was a finance broker at Combined Motor Traders, a Cranbourne used car dealership.