Accountant accused of enabling organised crime and facilitating $1 million mortgage fraud
An accountant has been charged after allegedly using his professional role to aid the Alameddine crime network, with police alleging he helped orchestrate a fraudulent mortgage scheme.
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A Sydney accountant who handles the financial affairs of alleged senior members of the Alameddine crime organisation has been charged with falsifying mortgage documents for a property worth over $1 million dollars.
George Jack Michael, 43, was arrested at a home in Croydon last week after a search warrant was executed at his Pitt Street office in the CBD where documents and electronic devices were seized.
His client is a major figure in the Alameddine’s and is in jail facing serious charges relating to the Hamzy-Alameddine war.
Detectives from the Criminal Groups Squad allege the 43-year-old man assisted members of a high-profile Organised Crime Network (OCN) by enabling fraud and money laundering through his tax practice.
The arrest is part of Strike Force Eeley, launched by State Crime Command in December 2021 with assistance from the NSW Crime Commission, to investigate a Sydney-based accountant suspected of enabling serious financial crime.
“Following extensive inquiries, police executed a search warrant shortly before 9.50am on May 13, at a taxation office in Sydney’s CBD,” NSW Police said in a statement.
“During the operation, officers will allege they uncovered both physical and electronic financial records linked to members of the OCN.”
Michael, 43, was arrested on Edwin Street in Croydon and taken to Burwood Police Station, where he was charged with two counts of publish etc false misleading material to obtain advantage and two counts of make false document to obtain financial advantage etc.
He was granted conditional bail and appeared in Burwood Local Court on June 17.
Days later, on Friday, a 30-year-old man — alleged to be a member of the same crime group and a client of the accountant — was issued a Future Court Attendance Notice for dishonestly obtaining property by deception.
Days later, on Friday, a 30-year-old man — alleged to be a member of the same crime group and a client of the accountant — was issued a Future Court Attendance Notice for dishonestly obtaining property by deception.
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