A Victorian woman revealed in a police interview the ease with which she set up a GST fraud.
A Victorian woman avoided jail after repeated efforts to have more than $115,000 in fake GST payments paid out to a dog grooming business that had been set up more than a decade earlier but remained dormant until early 2020.which was spread by social media influencers on TikTok. The scam involved individuals obtaining an Australian Business Number then using their MyGov account to file fraudulent business activity statements to claim GST refunds that in some cases exceeded $100,000.
Blanke, living in the regional Victoria town of Mildura, was “warned that you may be prosecuted if you intentionally reported false information in the future” according to a judgment in the County Court of Victoria in Melbourne in late July. Judge Todd noted the chaotic life of Blanke, a Canadian national, who at the time of the fraud was in an unstable and “drug-fuelled” relationship with Finlay, who was separately murdered in mid-2022.
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