All White-Collar Crime Case Studies

This is a case study on recklessly making a misleading or false statement to a taxation officer by a health professional. The case involved dealings with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and ultimately resulted in a sentence of recognisance without conviction. What is alleged to have occurred? Our ...

This is a case study on failure to lodge tax returns and failure to lodge BAS statements by a company in the hospitality industry resulting in a financial penalty. What is alleged to have occurred? Our client is a business that was accused of having contravened section 8C of the ...

This is a case study in strict liability offences that resulted in a non-conviction and good behaviour bond for a period of 12 months. What is alleged to have occurred? Our client was a Melbourne-based publicly listed company that was charged by ASIC with 8 offences under the Corporations Act ...

This is a case study on a plea of guilty to charges of obtaining property by deception and knowingly dealing with proceeds of crime. What is alleged to have occurred? Our client was alleged to have committed multiple charges of fraud amounting to more than $200,000. It was alleged that ...

Our client was charged with obtaining property by deception whilst working as a bookkeeper, a position our client had held for several years. What is alleged to have occurred? It was alleged that our client redirected more than $38,000 from the business to personal bank accounts by overpaying suppliers and ...

Our client was an employee of a company. His role started off as a receptionist, then expanded over time to bookkeeping, payroll, invoicing, and computer maintenance. He did not have any formal qualifications to undertake this role.He had a long standing history of financial difficulty and accumulating debt. There was ...

This is a case study on theft charges resulting in a Community Correction Order without conviction. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was charged with unauthorised use of company cab charge vouchers, chauffeur charges, and personal catering costs. Her employer detected the fraudulent activity after she had performed ...

This is a case study that involves charges related to false statements made to first home owners scheme. What is alleged to have occured? The client made an application to the first home owners scheme and wrongly indicated that he was not in a de facto relationship on the application ...

This is a case study on a dishonesty offence involving an amount over $100,000. What is alleged to have occured? The client was heavily in debt due to business ventures that had gone sour. He had no prior Court appearances for dishonesty offences. He was charged with two charges of ...

This is a case study on failure to lodge approved taxation documents under the Tax Administration Act 1953 resulting in a good behaviour bond without conviction. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was charged with several offences over a period of several years relating to failing to lodge ...

The client faced 22 charges of unauthorised access to or modification of data. He had left his former employer months earlier and was upset about the way that he had been treated there. What is alleged to have occured? Using old passwords, he had hacked into their system and shut ...

This is a case study on a successful diversion application for multiple charges of Make False Document. What is alleged to have occured? Our client was charged with 29 separate offences of Make False Document which spanned a period of 5 years. He was an employee of a business which ...

The client was young and unwell with depression. She felt unable to tell her employer the truth about her medical condition due to the stigma of mental illness. What is alleged to have occured? The client decided to fake medical letters which said she had cancer in order to get ...