CANBERRA, ACT, March 20 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:

Editor's note: Arrest footage of the syndicate can be accessed via HighTail

A Whittlesea woman who was responsible for a daycare fraud ring and trained others in how to perpetrate the scheme has become the fifth and final person sentenced for defrauding the Commonwealth of $800,000.



She was today sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment, which will be added to previously handed-down sentences for related offenses. She will now serve a combined maximum sentence of seven years, seven months imprisonment, with a non-parole period of five years and seven months.



The woman was one of five members of a Melbourne fraud syndicate arrested in...