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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.
Fair Trading
Luxury car dealer Galleria SUV Pty Ltd has had its Motor Dealer’s Licence permanently disqualified by NSW Fair Trading after serious charges were brought against its sole Director by NSW Police.
According to documents provided by NSW Police, Mr Simon Wakim the sole director of Galleria SUV Pty Ltd was charged with several serious offences that involved him allegedly:
Obtaining financial advantage and causing a financial disadvantage by deception totalling $950,000
Threatening the lives of individuals and their families
Demanding with the assistance of members of an outlaw motorcycle gang that motor vehicles be removed from the Personal Property Securities Register
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.
Coffs Harbour woman Ms Yvonne Hall has been sentenced to an aggregate of 16 months imprisonment for misappropriating close to $148,000 as Secretary for the Pozieres Remembrance Association, a charity that sold bricks to raise money for an Australian war memorial in France.