{"id":139660,"date":"2025-09-13T07:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139660\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:38:11","slug":"woman-charged-for-alleged-role-in-multi-million-dollar-syndicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139660\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged for alleged role in multi-million-dollar syndicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sydney\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sydney\">Sydney<\/a> woman has been charged for her alleged role i\ufeffn a sophisticated multi-million-dollar fraud and money laundering syndicate operating across t\ufeffhe city.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives began an investigation in January last year into an alleged criminal syndicate targeting car finance companies under Strike Force Myddleton.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the fraud and money laundering syndicate had used stolen personal information to apply for loans for luxury &#8220;ghost cars&#8221; which did not exist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/24a00eee-dbc3-4053-9b18-ed1c9ba4d4e9.jpeg\"   alt=\"A Sydney woman has been charged for her alleged role i&#xFEFF;n a sophisticated multi-million-dollar fraud and money laundering syndicate.\"\/>A Sydney woman has been charged for her alleged role i\ufeffn a sophisticated multi-million-dollar fraud and money laundering syndicate. (Getty Images\/iStockphoto)<\/p>\n<p>A 37-year-old woman was arrested at Day Street Police Station yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>She was charged with 11 counts of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception and participating in a criminal group contributing to criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>She was granted conditional bail to appear before Downing Centre Local Court on October 29.<\/p>\n<p>Police will allege in court the woman used false documents to obtain a number of fraudulent loans totalling $13 million.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen people have previously been charged and remain before the courts.<\/p>\n<p>The NSW Crime Commission has restrained $60 million in assets.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Police said an ongoing investigation discovered the syndicate&#8217;s alleged operations extended beyond car finance fraud to &#8220;large-scale personal business and home loan fraud&#8221; targeting multiple financial institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sydney woman has been charged for her alleged role i\ufeffn a sophisticated multi-million-dollar fraud and money laundering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-139660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}