Police raid truck company involved in Eastern Freeway crash
Police have raided multiple Sydney properties linked to the truck company involved in a fatal crash which killed four Victoria Police officers on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway.
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Police have raided properties in Sydney in connection with the Eastern Freeway crash that left police officers dead.
The searches, carried out this afternoon, focused on properties linked to Connect Logistics, the company truck driver Mohinder Singh was working for when he allegedly veered across several lanes and caused the horror crash on April 22.
Mr Singh, 47, has been charged with four counts of culpable driving causing the deaths of Leading Sen-Constable Lynette Taylor, Sen-Constable Kevin King, Constable Glen Humphris and Constable Josh Prestney.
The raids were carried out at two residential properties in Kenthurst, in western Sydney, and a business in Riverstone, also in western Sydney.
Victoria Police said no one was arrested as a result and the investigation remained ongoing.
Mr Singh, who is understood to have gone to school and worked in Griffith, NSW, before moving to Victoria, has been remanded in custody and will reappear in court on October 1.
The Sydney raids were carried out with assistance from NSW Highway Patrol.
It followed searches on Saturday of premises in Croydon and Frankston in regard to the same trucking company.
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