‘No Case Identical to It’: $40 Million Gold Fraudsters Jailed

Published on December 15, 2023

Two men involved in an elaborate gold fraud scheme that was defended as being “all about scientific research” have been jailed for eight years for their roles in the A$40 million (US$26.87 million) tax scam. Jonatan Kelu and Cedric Adrian Millner were convicted in July on two counts of conspiring to cause loss to the Commonwealth using an elaborate GST-evasion plot. Justice Richard Cavanagh on Friday handed the men identical eight-year jail terms in the NSW Supreme Court for their roles in the “repeated acts of dishonesty”. The pair were involved in a fraud that operated between 2012 and 2013, when they bought gold without paying GST as the precious metal was more than 99 per cent pure....

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