A top law enforcement official believes up to 20 per cent of the $30 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme is being rorted at the expense of our most vulnerable people. Exclusive by Nick McKenzie Ageinvestigates and Amelia Ballinger
has found members of Sydney’s notorious Hamzy crime network have infiltrated the NDIS. A crime boss and drug trafficker based in both Queensland and Victoria has been trying to develop properties to lease to the scheme.
The crime-fighting boss said his agency had detected “ghosting”, or the creation of fake NDIS clients, the systemic inflating of invoices, payment for services that are never provided and networks of facilitators, including doctors, pharmacists, training facilities, accountants and lawyers, who help criminals exploit the scheme.“We see serious and organised crime approaching the employees of pharmacies, for example, to basically act as spotters for people who are on the NDIS they can exploit.
Asked whether Labor would back Phelan’s call for a taskforce, NDIS Minister Bill Shorten said: “It’s definitely got to be an idea on the table. “When you layer that with what we see with the violence and intimidation against these people, it’s just beyond the pale, and we all should be disgusted.”
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