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Lawyer fears police plot
LAWYER Zarah Garde-Wilson has accused Victoria Police of engaging in an elaborate conspiracy aimed at forcing her out of the legal profession.
But while police believe she has joined one of the Melbourne underworld's "significant tribes", she says her recent conviction for contempt of court was part of a plan in which police put her in to a position where it was inevitable.
Garde-Wilson, who represents a string of Melbourne figures, said the plan had been put together by officers of the Purana gangland taskforce.
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The Australian - Sydney,Austra
29 January 2007
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Fraud Squad officers charged o
TWO Fraud Squad officers have been charged with fraud after a secret Police Integrity Commission investigation in New South Wales.
The officers, one of whom is a senior fraud investigator, were suspended last month.
The fraud they have been charged with committing is not complex or sophisticated. Rather, it is a simple and common type of mortgage fraud.
It is understood the investigation uncovered a loan application one of the officers, Senior Constable Rafiq Ahmed, 37, was involved in making to the Commonwealth Bank in March last year.
The loan was to finance an investment property.
It will be alleged the other officer, Detective Sergeant Con Kostakidis, 45, supplied a reference to the bank in support of the loan application.
In it, Kostakidis allegedly stated that a woman named Aisha Ahmed worked at his business, the Red Lounge Cafe in Oxford St, in Sydney's Darlinghurst, when she did not.
It is unclear what relationship Aisha Ahmed has to Rafiq Ahmed.
Aisha Ahmed is not involved in any way in the Police Integrity Commission's investigation.
Charge sheets lodged with the Downing Centre Local Court allege both officers "made a statement to the Commonwealth Bank that Aisha Ahmed was employed by the Red Lounge Cafe, knowing the said statement to be false".
It is alleged Rafiq Ahmed made the false statement on March 10, 2006, and Kostakidis 10 days later.
Both face one charge of obtaining financial advantage by making a false or misleading statement.
Such an offence carries a maximum penalty of five years' jail.
The charge sheet reveals both men were issued with a court attendance notice on December 29. It shows the prosecuting body was the Police Integrity Commission.
The offence they are charged with committing is a common form of mortgage fraud in which people inflate their assets or incomes to secure loans that banks would otherwise reject.
Until recently, Kostakidis was a team leader in the Fraud Squad's Assets Confiscation Unit.
A spokesman for Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said Mr Moroney had been informed of the charges and had suspended the two officers pending the outcome of court proceedings.
They will face Downing Centre Local Court on February 8.
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