Revesby charity run by convicted money launderer Carl Trad ordered to pay back $10,000 taxpayer ‘food van’ grant

The NSW Government has demanded a charity run by convicted money launderer Carl Trad repay $10,000 of public money.

Carl Trad is the president of the Australian Multicultural Christian Society, the charity ordered to pay back a $10,000 government grant.

THE NSW Government has demanded a charity run by convicted money launderer Carl Trad repay $10,000 of public money.

The Department of Premier and Cabinet has written to Revesby-based Australian Multicultural Christian Society revoking a grant, which the charity claimed was for a van to feed homeless people in Picnic Point’s Lambeth Reserve.

It comes after The Express revealed the charity was audited in August after Trad failed to produce receipts or documentation on how the money, paid in 2014, had been spent.

Fair Go For The West Photo Competition. #fairgowest photo comp. Lambeth Reserve, Picnic Point. New Years Eve walk, what a view! Pic: Jenny Andersen

Some locals denied there were any homeless in Lambeth Reserve.

“Following the independent review into the 2013 Community Building Partnership grant paid to the Australian Multicultural Christian Society, the NSW Government is not satisfied that the organisation has met the terms of their signed funding agreement,” a Department of Premier and Cabinet spokeswoman said.

Trad has previously said the grant had been used to buy a bus which was used by Christian charities.

When The Express contacted Trad for comment he replied with a series of expletives too offensive to publish.

The Express also understands the charity will not run its Bankstown Carols this year, an event it took over from the former Bankstown Council in 2014.

The money came from East Hills state MP Glenn Brookes’ Community Building Partnership scheme allocation.

The van grant was the second AMCS applied for under East Hills state Liberal MP Glenn Brookes’ Community Building Partnership scheme allocation, which gives MPs $300,000 a year in taxpayer funding for local projects.

The charity applied for an $18,000 grant to build a covered outdoor learning area and play equipment at East Hills Public School in 2014, but the department instead handed responsibility directly to the school.

And last month the department also decided to bypass an unrelated Samoan group who requested a grant for schoolyard equipment at St Christopher’s Primary School in Panania and pay it directly to the P & C.

Originally published as Revesby charity run by convicted money launderer Carl Trad ordered to pay back $10,000 taxpayer ‘food van’ grant