Mubin-ul Haider charged with alleged ‘Back to Work’ grant fraud totalling thousands
A man alleged to have rorted a state government thousands of dollars in grant funding meant to support unemployed workers has fronted court.
A man who allegedly submitted fraudulent applications to claim benefits worth more than $1.2 million under a government-funded work grant program has got a new lawyer, a court heard.
Police will allege Mubin-ul Haider submitted and attempted to submit a number of fraudulent applications to claim Back to Work grants from the Queensland Government over a two-year period.
The state-run program allows employers who hire eligible unemployed workers to claim up to $20,000 in support payments.
The man’s claims allegedly total just over $1.2 million but it will be alleged he obtained an actual sum of over $120,000.
On Tuesday, defence lawyer David Svoboda told the court he was recently hired by Mr Haider to represent him in court about two weeks ago.
Mr Svoboda said he’d received the remainder of the brief of evidence on Friday and requested an adjournment to go through the police material.
The matter was adjourned to July 26 for further mention.
Footage released by Queensland Police following Mr Haider’s arrest reveals detectives unwrapping wads of cash concealed in paper envelopes found in Mr Haider’s Fortitude Valley unit in 2020.
Detectives from the Criminal Assets Disruption Team had seized a large amount of cash, electronic items such as mobile phones, laptops and portable hard drives, bank cards and a large quantity of financial documents in various company names were seized.
Mr Haider was charged with one count of fraud, attempted fraud, money laundering, possessing tainted property, possessing a dangerous drug and two counts of dealing with identification information.
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