{"id":777750,"date":"2026-07-04T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777750\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:30:10","slug":"killara-news-man-charged-with-allegedly-laundering-2-4-million-in-dirty-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777750\/","title":{"rendered":"Killara news: Man charged with allegedly laundering $2.4 million in dirty cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is set to front court today after federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/nsw-police-jdi\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> charged him with allegedly laundering $2.4 million of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/crime-5w4\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criminal<\/a> cash through his construction business.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations into the man from Sydney\u2019s North Shore began last December and led to four men being charged with laundering $150 million in illegal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/lifestyle\/money\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police allege the man laundered the dirty cash through his construction business.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ccc6633edbeaa4a33dfaec90f8fb5963debc435da064c4645f7b17a329961d74.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Police allege the man laundered the dirty cash through his construction business.\u00a0Australian Federal Police<\/p>\n<p>They will allege that the 45-year-old received dirty money on behalf of the illegal group to launder through a construction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/business-news\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">business<\/a> between June 2024 and November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The four men who were charged are believed to be members of a sophisticated money laundering syndicate that allegedly laundered the cash for an organised crime group.<\/p>\n<p>Police were able to identify the 45-year-old man from Killara after they analysed devices that were seized during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly paid his construction workers with dirty money and then transferred legitimate cash earned by the business as well as commissions back to the syndicate under a fraudulent invoice.<\/p>\n<p>A search warrant was executed in Killara on Friday, with police seizing several electronic devices as well as about $30,000 cash.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old was charged with one count of dealing with proceeds of crime and was denied bail.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, he could face up to 12 years behind bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is set to front court today after federal police charged him with allegedly laundering $2.4 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-777750","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\/777750","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=777750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}