Case Studies: Fraud, Dishonesty & Theft Offences

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Our team at Potts Lawyers has over 100 years of combined experience in representing clients charged with fraud, dishonesty and theft offences. This includes white collar and commercial fraud. View some of our recent results achieved for clients charged with a fraud, dishonesty or theft offence below.

Dishonestly obtain property from another by employee & forgery

Our client was charged after his employer’s discovered that he had been abusing his trusted position in their finance team. Ultimately, the Prosecution offered no evidence in relation to all of the charges before the Court. The charges were dismissed against our client. As such, no penalty was imposed and our client has no record of this offending on his criminal history.

Forgery Of Documents And Attempted Fraud

Our client was an employed as a sales/service manager. In his position, he sold products belonging to his employer, and created invoices on his employer’s computer system. The invoices created detailed our client’s own personal bank account details, so that when the invoice was paid, the money would be deposited into his own bank account instead of his employer’s business account.

Stealing

Our client was charged with stealing after she was seen leaving a fruit and vegetable shop with items that she had not paid for. Upon being questioned by police, she admitted to taking items from another shop earlier that day that she had not paid for…

Forgery Of Documents And Attempted Fraud

Prior to our client’s arrest, our client had been struggling with an addiction to over the counter pain medication containing codeine. When over the counter medication containing codeine become prescription only from 1 February 2018, our client found it very difficult to obtain the medication he was addicted to…

Possession Of Tainted Property

Our client was pulled over by police while riding his bicycle without a helmet and asked to produce identification. When our client attempted to retrieve his identification from his back pack, the police noticed a flick knife tucked into his waistband…

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