Fraud

Astor Legal last week appeared on behalf of a client who was facing serious fraud charges totalling over $5,000. Our client was an employee at a retail business. Their role involved having access to the company’s finances and bank accounts. Over the course of 4 months, our client was accused of systematically transferring funds into […]

Astor Legal last week appeared at Parramatta Local Court to represent a client who was facing serious fraud charges totalling over $1million. Our client was the director of a home building corporation at the time of the offences. In the course of her job, the corporation was required to obtain building certificates before commencing work. Unfortunately, our […]

Our client is a 20-year-old international rugby player. He was playing first grade in Australia and had recently received an offer to play professionally in France. On the day of the incident he was driving a friend to Darling Harbour in Sydney. While attempting to make a right turn, a pedestrian ran in front of […]

Our client is 38 year old man who was born in New Zealand. He had struggled throughout his life with mental health issues. He had a lengthy criminal history for fraud offences. Indeed, he had previously spent a number of years in jail for fraud offences. We previously represented him in a District Court Trial […]

Our client was the CEO of a large multi-national company. It was alleged that in the course of her role she had misappropriated over $350,000 from the company and transferred it to her own accounts. The offending was alleged to have occurred over 18 months until she was eventually caught. At this stage the company […]

Astor Legal last week appeared at Young Local Court to represent a client who was facing serious fraud charges totalling approximately $600,000. Our client was a bank employee at the time of the offences. In the course of her job she committed a number of fraudulent transactions between 2013 and 2016. Throughout the three years […]

Last week Astor Legal appeared at Toronto Local Court on behalf of a client charged with serious fraud offences. Our client was known to Police they had previously charged him with fraud offences. At the time of these offences he was on bail. Police alleged that our client had set up an ‘Airtasker’ account and […]

Our client was a 25-year-old worker at a retail store. Six months after commencing employment she was charged with Larceny by clerk or servant offence pursuant to Section 156 of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) relating to over $20,000 in stock and cash. Police alleged that over the course of many months our client had […]

Our client is a 38-year old taxi driver. He was charged with over 50 counts of ‘Dishonestly Obtain Financial Advantage by Deception’ under Section 192E of the Crimes Act 1900 (known as ‘fraud’). These charges each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment. Police alleged that our client was involved in a scheme whereby […]

Our client is 33 year old woman from Tumut. She had been struggling with mental health issues for some time. Between December 2012 and April 2016 it was alleged that she had committed a number of fraud related offences. The Police Facts stated that she had withdrawn almost $500,000 from her parents savings account and […]