Police have charged a man with 140 alleged fraud offences after extensive investigations into a series of incidents allegedly committed in 2019 and 2020 in Gympie and on the Gold Coast.
The man allegedly fraudulently obtained and attempted to fraudulently obtain loans through various financial institutions, using the stolen identities of multiple people known to him.
During these offences, the man allegedly impersonated individuals to obtain loans and fraudulently create bank accounts in their names.
Police will allege the man fraudulently obtained approximately $78,000 and attempted to obtain approximately $380,000 further in loans, causing significant financial harm to the victims.
Detectives from Gympie Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), with the assistance of Logan CIB, arrested a 31-year-old Berrinba man in Berrinba yesterday, January 22, and charged him with 140 offences including fraud, attempted fraud, money laundering, personation in general – falsely represent self to be a person living/ dead/real/fictitious and forgery.
He is due to appear in the Gympie Magistrates Court on March 3.
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