{"id":761193,"date":"2026-06-26T08:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761193\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:46:12","slug":"former-coffs-harbour-strata-manager-jessica-marrie-carah-charged-with-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761193\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Coffs Harbour strata manager Jessica Marrie Carah charged with fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former employee of a strata business on the NSW Mid North Coast has been refused bail on more than 400 fraud offences.<\/p>\n

According to NSW Police, Jessica Marrie Carah, 30, is alleged to have transferred more than $2 million from strata trust accounts into a personal bank account.<\/p>\n

She allegedly spent the money on cryptocurrency investments, luxury goods and an SUV.<\/p>\n

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Jessica Marrie Carah is alleged to have transferred more than $2 million from strata trust accounts. (Facebook)<\/p>\n

Ms Carah was arrested at her Coffs Harbour home on Thursday and charged with recklessly deal with proceeds of crime and 403 counts of dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception.<\/p>\n

She appeared via video link from custody before Acting Judge Amanda Coultas-Roberts in Bail Court today.<\/p>\n

In opposing bail, police prosecutor Leanne Smith told the court Ms Carah’s alleged actions amounted to “a serious breach of community trust”.<\/p>\n

“She was the sole person with access to these funds and these actions have had considerable effects on the whole community,” Sergeant Smith said.<\/p>\n

“There are concerns about her interfering with witnesses and, in light of a likely custodial sentence, of failing to appear in court.”\"A<\/p>\n

Jessica Marrie Carah is to remain in custody until her next court appearance. (Supplied: NSW Police)<\/p>\n

Defence solicitor Tas Tasdemir told the court Ms Carah had been under pressure.<\/p>\n

“Monies were transferred from the strata business where she was working and were then transferred to her ex-partner’s account,” he said.<\/p>\n

“She states she was under duress to her ex-partner at the time.”<\/p>\n

Mr Tasdemir told the court Ms Carah had depression and anxiety and was seeing a psychologist.<\/p>\n

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The bail court was told 63 body corporate accounts were defrauded. (ABC Coffs Coast: Claire Simmonds)<\/p>\n

Judge Coultas-Roberts described the charges as “an extremely serious matter and a breach of trust of the 63 victims who believed she was dutifully managing their strata”.<\/p>\n

“It seems, on the facts I have, that it is a strong prosecution case,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Should she be convicted of the offences, a full-time custodial sentence is inevitable.”<\/p>\n

Ms Carah dropped her head and appeared to wipe her eyes when Judge Coultas-Roberts refuse bail and remanded her in custody.<\/p>\n

Ms Carah is expected to return to court via video link on July 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former employee of a strata business on the NSW Mid North Coast has been refused bail on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[363479,43,363478,363477,44,276493,363480,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-761193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-coffs-harbour-strata-fraud","tag-headlines","tag-jess-carah","tag-jessica-marrie-carah","tag-news","tag-strata-management","tag-strata-manager-charged-with-fraud","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761193","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=761193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}