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An Adelaide woman has been released on bail after being charged over an alleged plot to steal more than $5 million from the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The 48-year-old was arrested at a home in Blakeview on Wednesday and was taken into custody wearing a maroon tracksuit with a scarf over her face following a series of raids which also targeted a home in Mawson Lakes and a business in Prospect.
The woman, who works for the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), was charged with disclosing protected agency information, abuse of public office, attempting to forge documents to cause a loss to the Commonwealth, and dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage for another person.
Investigators with the Fraud Fusion Taskforce said more charges were expected to be laid.
Police allege the woman accessed more than 40 protected NDIS participant records without authorisation through her NDIA employment, both inside and outside of work hours, and had pocketed $53,000 from a local NDIA business as part of the alleged $5 million fraud scheme.
She also allegedly made fraudulent claims on behalf of family members for services not provided, allegedly failed to declare a conflict of interest between her work for the NDIA and the business, and allegedly did not disclose a relative’s employment at the NDIA business.
She was granted police bail to appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court in August.
A spokesperson for the NDIA, which is the agency which oversees the NDIS, said the taskforce had acted as soon as alleged suspicious activity was detected.
“The safety of participants and security of their personal information are absolute priorities,” the spokesperson said.
The raids are the latest in a series on investigations aimed at reducing theft from the bloated $50 billion/year NDIS, after a parliamentary inquiry heard in April that an estimated 8% of the scheme is affected by fraud, and that it is being targeted by criminal gangs from the Middle East, Asia and South America.
Previous estimates have been much higher, and FFT sources said last year that the true scale of fraud was impossible to calculate and likely to be billions more than the official figures.
Header image: Left, right, the woman being arrested (AFP).
