Home detention for ad invoice scammer
The sentence follows Terran Elizabeth Dow's sentencing last year to 12 months' supervision and 220 hours of community work
The sentence follows Terran Elizabeth Dow's sentencing last year to 12 months' supervision and 220 hours of community work
James Burns faces seven months of home detention for his role in an alleged $1.6 million advertising invoice scam.
The Serious Fraud Office says the scam involved selling advertising in magazines that were either never printed, or in publications where there was gross misrepresentations about the number of magazines to be printed and circulated were made to the advertisers.
The magazines were generally titled in a way that suggested worthwhile causes in subjects such as road safety or parenting.
Burns pleaded guilty in July this year to 14 Crimes Act charges of using documents with intent to obtain approximately $740,000.
He will start his sentence of home detention on 25 October 25, 2014.
The sentence follows Terran Elizabeth Dow’s sentencing last year to 12 months' supervision and 220 hours of community work.
The three remaining defendants in the matter; Anthony Hendon, Noelene Banton and Johannes Middeldorp, have been committed for trial.
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