{"id":72488,"date":"2026-08-15T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/72488\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:32:05","slug":"fraud-officials-charge-another-over-alleged-5-million-ndis-dishonesty-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/72488\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud officials charge another over alleged $5 million NDIS dishonesty plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 38-year-old Adelaide man has been charged over an alleged $5 million dishonesty plot against the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man, who is a director of a registered NDIS provider, was arrested and charged by Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers at Adelaide Airport on Friday as he prepared to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It follows an investigation by the federal government&#8217;s Fraud Fusion Taskforce (FFT), which began in March in response to the NDIA&#8217;s finding that unauthorised access to protected records of NDIS participants had taken place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In June, <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-06-10\/adelaide-woman-charged-with-alleged-5m-ndis-fraud-plot\/106782874\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 48-year-old woman was the first person to face charges<\/a> over the same alleged plot after FFT investigators searched premises in Adelaide&#8217;s northern suburbs, including a business in Prospect and homes in Mawson Lakes and Blakeview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The AFP charged the man with one count of dealing with the proceeds of crime, fraudulently claimed from the NDIS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was also charged with one count of soliciting protected agency information from a National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) staff member.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The offences carry maximum penalties of 25 years&#8217;s and 2 years&#8217;s imprisonment, respectively, according to the AFP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man has been remanded in custody and is expected to appear before the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old Adelaide man has been charged over an alleged $5 million dishonesty plot against the National Disability&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,38058,103,1758,6022,6021,23226,102209],"class_list":["post-72488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-magistrates-court","tag-afp","tag-australian-federal-police","tag-fraud","tag-national-disability-insurance-scheme","tag-ndia","tag-ndia-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}