MORE THAN $580,000 FORFEITED AS PART OF IMMIGRATION VISA FRAUD INVESTIGATION

CANBERRA, ACT, June 3 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:

This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force, Department of Home Affairs, AUSTRAC, and the Australian Taxation Office

More than $580,000 has been forfeited to the Commonwealth as suspected proceeds of crime following an AFP-led investigation into an immigration visa fraud scheme linked to a Central Coast man, 61.

The Supreme Court of NSW ordered the forfeiture of $117,000 of those total funds on 1 June, 2026, after the man admitted they were proceeds of crimes he committed between about July, 2017, and May, 2020.

Those crimes included his role in providing false documents to a person exercising powers un...