The construction boss has been sentenced for his role as the overseer of a tax fraud scheme that delivered him the “lion’s share” of criminal proceeds.
Construction boss George Alex has been sentenced to nine years and three months in jail for his role as the overseer of a $10 million tax fraud scheme that delivered him the “lion’s share” of criminal gains.
He had no business email address and rarely spoke to his co-conspirators on the phone. But he was found to have been instrumental in the scheme, which siphoned off more than $100,000 a week in pay-as-you-go taxes owed to the Commonwealth.Justice Desmond Fagan found it was “inconceivable” that any of the fellow conspirators would have taken the steps they did without Alex’s agreement and instructions.
According to Crown prosecutors, this included $1 million transferred to a company he used as a personal “moneybox”, $150,000 in rental payments for his family home, and $74,000 toward a Range Rover for his wife.Alex will serve a non-parole period of six years and two months’ imprisonment. Each of the four conspirators – Lindsay John Kirschberg, Gordon McAndrew, Pasquale Loccisano, and Mark Ronald Bryers – was sentenced to a non-parole period of at least five years.
While the other members had each played a “pivotal” role, Alex had acted as the “controlling mind of the back office, which was critical to the success of both conspiracies.”
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