Posing as an immigration lawyer, a Victorian woman swindled close to $80,000 from unsuspecting victims who hoped she could help them get Australian visas. 9News
Melbourne woman Marleen Charan, 48, has never been registered in Victoria as a migration agent or lawyer.
But between February 2016 and May 2017, Charan convinced four people that she could help them get Australian visas.Marleen Charan was arrested at Melbourne Airport. She charged them thousands of dollars for services and then blocked them from contacting her when their visas didn't arrive.She denied any involvement in the scam and instead tried to shift the blame to her only employee.
Charan pleaded guilty in the Victorian County Court on Friday to obtaining financial advantage by deception.Given delays in her case and her lack of offending since, Judge Duncan Allen flagged an onerous community corrections order without jail time."It seems in the past she's had trouble living in reality," he said."There is no independent evidence of remorse at this time. She needs to accept reality.
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