Detectives from Queensland Police Service’s (QPS) Crime and Intelligence Command’s Financial and Cyber Crime Group have donated clothing seized as part of a closed fraud investigation.
The QPS said, with this week being National Homelessness Week (1-7 August), hundreds of new clothing items had been donated to Brisbane-based community organisation, Micah Projects.
It said Micah Projects supported people impacted by homelessness and domestic and family violence.
Detective Acting Inspector with the QPS, Brad Hallett said the items, worth in excess of $60,000, were donated to Micah Projects instead of being destroyed following the closure of the investigation.
“These are brand-new items, which were seized as proceeds of crime during a 2018 money laundering investigation that targeted an international fraud syndicate,” Detective A/Inspector Hallett said.
“After the success of the investigation, which resulted in one arrest in Queensland and two overseas in relation to fraud and money laundering offences, it is extremely satisfying for investigators to be able to make this donation.”
He said it was one of the largest donations of its kind by the Financial and Cyber Crime Group, with the items including dresses as well as men’s and women’s shirts, jackets, jeans and shoes.
Detective A/Inspector Hallett said that, in 2018, Financial and Cyber Crime Group investigators arrested a 24-year-old Indian national living in Everton Park for his alleged property mule role in an international fraud syndicate.
He said investigations confirmed an international fraud syndicate based in Malaysia was using stolen credit card data to make online purchases.
Detective A/Inspector Hallett said the clothing items were among hundreds of online purchased items repackaged and sent by the man to the overseas offenders in Malaysia.
