Braybrook man arrested over 500 false Covid isolation payment claims
Police found a card printing machine and fake identification documents at the man’s home, with detectives alleging the hundreds of claims made are worth up to $60,000.
A Melbourne man alleged to have submitted more than 500 applications for Covid-19 temporary isolation payments worth up to $60,000 during the pandemic has been arrested.
Detectives from the Financial Crime Squad and the Darebin Crime Squad executed a warrant and searched the 41-year-old man’s home on Thursday.
A card-printing machine, a card-embossing machine and a number of fake identification documents such as Victorian drivers’ licences and proof of age and Medicare cards were seized from the Braybrook address.
Mobile phone signal jammers and numerous phones, tablets and computers were also taken.
The man is expected to be charged on summons over deception and fraudulent document related offences.
Police will allege that the man successfully submitted the applications under false names between 2020 and 2021.
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