Lithuanian woman charged with six fraud offences - Potts Point
Friday, 12 December 2014 02:14:19 AM
A Lithuanian woman will appear in court today (Friday 12 December 2014) after being charged with numerous fraud offences.
Around 10.30am yesterday (Thursday 11 December 2014), police were called to a bank in Potts Point after a woman attempted to make a withdrawal from a bank account.
Officers from Kings Cross Local Area Command attended the bank, where they spoke to and searched the woman, finding nine separate credit cards, cash, sim cards, and a number of banking transfer receipts in the woman’s possession.
The woman – a 31-year-old from Lithuania – was arrested and taken to Kings Cross Police Station, where further inquiries indicated that she had been involved in fraudulently accessing and transferring funds from a number of Australian bank accounts that do not belong to her.
She was charged with six counts of obtain financial advantage by deception and refused bail to appear in Central Local Court today.
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