{"id":529289,"date":"2026-01-20T07:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529289\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:15:19","slug":"sydney-ndis-provider-director-accused-of-3-6m-fraud-as-cash-seized-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529289\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney NDIS provider director accused of $3.6m fraud as cash seized at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

The director of a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provider has been charged over his alleged role in defrauding millions of taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n

Billal Chami, 31, is accused of being involved in laundering $3.6 million in cash, which police said derived from fraudulent claims to the NDIS.<\/p>\n

Australian Federal Police (AFP) allege some of the submitted claims included circumstances where support and services were not provided to participants.<\/p>\n

Authorities said they began investigating the director of the NDIS provider in February last year after the Australian Security and Investments Commission (ASIC) detected anomalies with Mr Chami’s finances.<\/p>\n

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Mr Chami is accused of being involved in laundering $3.6 million in cash. (ABC News: Ethan Rix)<\/p>\n

It will be alleged that Mr Chami repeatedly withdrew significant amounts of cash from various banks between 2022 and 2025 to aid himself and others in the laundering of dirty cash.<\/p>\n

Officers raided his Villawood home in December where they allegedly seized $35,000 in cash stored in an underwear drawer, along with several air guns and gel blasters.<\/p>\n

Facing Sydney Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday, Mr Chami had his bail continued by the magistrate.<\/p>\n

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AFP officers allegedly siezed $35,000 in cash. (Supplied: AFP)<\/p>\n

Under his bail conditions, he is prohibited from contacting 26 people related to the investigation into the alleged fraudulent claims.<\/p>\n

Mr Chami has been charged with one count of dealing with money reasonably suspected of being proceeds of an indictable crime to the value of $1,000,000 or more.<\/p>\n

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Authorities began investigating the director of the NDIS provider in February last year. (AAP: Mick Tsikas)<\/p>\n

The maximum penalty for the offence is four years’ imprisonment.<\/p>\n

The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has issued a notice of intention to ban Mr Chami and his provider from the scheme.<\/p>\n

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Air guns and gel blasters were allegedly seized in the raid. (Supplied: AFP)<\/p>\n

Mr Chami’s arrest comes after a joint national crackdown resulted in 333 search warrants being carried out across New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia.<\/p>\n

The AFP said its targeted operations have so far resulted in 43 terabytes of data being seized by forensic investigators.<\/p>\n

Mr Chami will face court again on March 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The director of a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provider has been charged over his alleged role in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":529290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30310,39486,4740,234724,4504,10493,234722,19728,820,67161,7927,50,59011,13048,234725,12894,234723],"class_list":{"0":"post-529289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-afp","9":"tag-allegedly","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-billal-chami","12":"tag-cash","13":"tag-claims","14":"tag-defrauded","15":"tag-director","16":"tag-fraud","17":"tag-millions","18":"tag-ndis","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-provider","21":"tag-sydney","22":"tag-sydney-downing-centre","23":"tag-taxpayers","24":"tag-underwear-drawer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115926200115332284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}