{"id":506557,"date":"2026-02-27T01:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506557\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:53:09","slug":"sydney-lawyer-allegedly-stole-nearly-15-million-from-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506557\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney lawyer allegedly stole nearly $15 million from clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sydney\">Sydney<\/a> solicitor has been charged after allegedly stealing almost $15 million from clients.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege that between April 2023 and February 2025, a 45-year-old solicitor at a Bondi Junction law firm had accessed several business and trust accounts and transferred funds to himself.<\/p>\n<p>It will be alleged in court the man stole $14.8 million from clients for gambling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ee354b36-a4e5-4047-b344-61320f752389.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>A Sydney lawyer has been charged with stealing nearly $15 million from clients. (Karleen Minney)<\/p>\n<p>At about 10am yesterday, detectives arrested the lawyer at Maroubra Police Station and charged him with multiple fraud-related offences.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>He was refused bail and appeared in court yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation opened after a referral from the NSW Law Society.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This referral was instrumental in allowing detectives to uncover the full extent of the alleged offending and ensure the matter is now before the court,&#8221; Detective Superintendent Gordon Arbinja said.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different ways to get help and information about gambling. You can visit the National Gambling Helpline or call on 1800 858 858.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sydney solicitor has been charged after allegedly stealing almost $15 million from clients. Police allege that between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-506557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506557","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=506557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}