Bikies using front people to obtain millions from banks using false documents

BIKIES are using mortgage brokers and real estate agents with no criminal records to obtain millions from banks. In one case a senior Nomad allegedly used government employee Irena Dokoza (pictured) to secure a $1.3 million property.

Nomads boss Sleiman Tajjour.

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BIKIES are using mortgage brokers, real estate agents and front people with no criminal records to obtain millions of dollars in loans from banks using false documents, police allege.

A special taskforce, Maraar, made up of the Fraud and Cybercrime Squad, Strike Force Raptor and the National Anti-Gangs Squad, has charged 11 people using dodgy loans to buy luxury cars, motorbikes and properties throughout Sydney.

In one case before the courts, 35-year-old government employee Irena Dokoza is alleged to have been a frontwoman for the Nomads boss Sleiman Tajjour and his defacto Susan Nehme to try to obtain $1.3 million to buy a property.

Government employee Irena Dokoza.

Irena Dokoza leaving court.

Also charged was mortgage broker John Bazouni and his ­associate Vesna Karasecevic.

Police allege Dokoza, Tajjour and Nehme all attended the Wetherill Park Crossfit gym and were picked up on telephone intercepts planning the fraud.

An application by Dokoza to change her bail conditions so she could travel overseas was opposed by police on Friday in Fairfield Court, with officers arguing Dokoza, who has a twin sister, “could utilise her sister’s passport to flee’’.

Papers lodged in court said the scheme involved creating fraudulent documents to further loan applications and, had the finance been granted, more than $1 million would have been obtained.

“Utilising co-offenders in trusted positions, it was an extremely sophisticated and complex attempt to obtain finance using fraud,’’ police allege.

Police claim phone intercepts, text messages and emails prove the fraud by the accused was intended to deceive the banks about who the real beneficiaries of the loan were.

“Make sure you don’t forget to say John is putting it in a business ... not my personal name,’’ Nehme is alleged to have told Dokoza. Using false documents and statutory declarations, police claim Dokoza applied for loans with the National Australia Bank and ANZ banks to buy a property in Greystanes for Tajjour.

Nomads national president Sleiman “Simon” Tajjour.

On October 6 last year, Tajjour contacted mortgage broker John Bazouni saying he wanted the loan rushed though: “My wife’s living at uncle Jimmy’s house, f … ing one bedroom with my two kids man, like please, I really need a place for them.’’

In October, police contacted NAB and ANZ banks to inform them they had been victims of an alleged fraud.

After police intervened, the loans were rejected by the financial institutions.

It is alleged Dokoza then attempted to gain finance through RAMS home loans but that attempt was also unsuccessful after police intervened.

“Nehme and Tajjour were eventually successful in finance for the purchase (of a home) at Greystanes,’’ police allege.

They claim they used Nehme’s uncle Jim as a proxy and, a short time later, the pair moved into the property.

Police also claimed that Dokoza visited the couple at their new address.

Despite her application to change her bail conditions being opposed, Dokoza was granted court permission to attend Sydney Airport to see her mother off on a trip to Croatia.