ARTICLES

» Bogus Qantas Engineer Timothy Leslie McCormack Sent to Jail
» NSW Recruitment Company to Pay Big Damages Bill Over Referencing Failure
» Avoiding The Bad Apples
» Government won't rush into privacy changes for employee records
» Australian Federal Police pay Jayant Patel $60k for living costs
» QANTAS Unqualified Safety Man
» Hudson Case Illustrates Growing Litigation Risk Over Candidate Recommendations
» Former Director of Newcastle-Based Investment Company Found Guilty
» ASIC Teams with Industry on Reference-Checking Initiative for Financial Advisors
» Westpac Ex-Manager Jailed for Stealing $4m
» Qantas Safety Questioned
» Officials Not Told of CV Fib
» Rubber Stamp Lies for Doctor
» Intern Case 'No Comparison to Jayant Patel'
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Froggy Fraud Boss Jailed

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Just Helping Yourself

» Warning Bells Ring on Fake Degrees
» NHS Chief Faked his CV to Land £115,000-a-year job
» Fake Psychiatrist Heads Overseas
» Bogus Qualifications

 

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BOGUS QANTAS ENGINEER TIMOTHY LESLIE McCORMACK SENT TO JAIL 
December 2008
Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au

A Pathological liar who faked his way into an aircraft engineer's job with Qantas has been sentenced to a maximum three years and five months in prison...Read Full Article

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NSW RECRUITMENT COMPANY TO PAY BIG DAMAGES BILL OVER REFERENCING FAILURE
November 2008
Source: Shortlist - www.shortlist.com.au

A New South Wales recruitment company has lost a bid to have a $160k damages award overturned, in a long-running legal dispute with a former client over its failure to properly reference a candidate...Read Full Article

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AVOIDING THE BAD APPLES
August 2008
Source: Financial Planning

Many financial planning firms continue to rely on the good faith of an applicant's claims on resumes and application forms....Read Full Article

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GOVERNMENT WON'T RUSH INTO PRIVACY CHANGES FOR EMPLOYEE RECORDS
13 August 2008

Source: Shortlist - www.shortlist.com.au

The Federal Government has signalled it will defer consideration of the contentious Australian Law Reform Commission recommendations which would effectively introduce a range of new privacy restrictions on employee records.....
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AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE PAY JAYANT PATEL $60K FOR LIVING COSTS
30 July 2008
Source: The Courier Mail

THE Queensland Government has set aside $60,000 for the "initial" living expenses of accused Bundaberg surgeon Jayant Patel, but the final tab could well be higher.....
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QANTAS UNQUALIFIED SAFETY MAN 
25 May 2008
Source: The Daily Telegraph 

An unqualified engineer allegedly performed nearly 2000 maintenance jobs on Qantas airplanes over 10 months, a court has been told....
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HUDSON CASE ILLUSTRATES GROWING LITIGATION RISK OVER CANDIDATE RECOMMENDATIONS
15 October 2007
Source: Shortlist - www.shortlist.net.au 

A dispute between leading law firm McMahons and Hudson has highlighted a growing area of litigation between recruitment companies and clients over candidate recommendations.....
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FORMER DIRECTOR OF NEWCASTLE-BASED INVESTMENT COMANY FOUND GUILTY
12 October 2007
Source: ASIC - www.asic.gov.au  

A Newcastle man was today found guilty by a Sydney District Court jury of fraud in relation to the arrangement of a $320,000 loan for an unemployed woman.....
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ASIC TEAMS WITH INDUSTRY ON REFERENCE-CHECKING INITIATIVE FOR FINANCIAL ADVISORS
11 October 2007
Source: ASIC - www.asic.gov.au

Chairman of ASIC, Mr Tony D’Aloisio and the Chief Executive Officer of Standards Australia, Mr John Tucker, today jointly launched a new handbook, Reference Checking in the Financial Services Industry, which provides employers with a reference-checking framework that can be applied to financial advisers.....
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WESTPAC EX-MANAGER JAILED FOR STEALING $4M
31 August 2007
Source: ABC News

A former Westpac Bank manager in Sydney has been jailed for up to eight years for taking nearly $4 million from customers' accounts to gamble on horse racing.....
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QANTAS SAFETY QUESTIONED
21 August 2007
Source: Herald Sun

AN unqualified Qantas mechanical engineer signed off on the safety of more than 1000 international flights in the past year without having a licence to do so.....
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OFFICIALS NOT TOLD OF CV FIB
2 August 2007
Source: The Australian

QUEENSLAND health authorities were not notified for more than a week that Mohammed Asif Ali had admitted embellishing part of his CV and keeping rubber stamps to forge supporting documents.....
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RUBBER STAMP LIES FOR DOCTOR
1 August 2007
Source: www.news.com.au

A GOLD Coast doctor accused of lying about his employment history owned documents and rubber stamps used to authenticate medical credentials.....
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INTERN CASE 'NO COMPARISON TO JAYANT PATEL' 
10 April 2007
Source: The Australian

THE Queensland Government denies it has another Jayant Patel scandal on its hands amid an investigation into how four foreign interns were hired at a regional hospital without background checks.....
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FROGGY FRAUD BOSS JAILED 
24 January 2007
Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Failed dotcom entrepreneur Karl Suleman has been sentenced by a Sydney judge to a minimum five-and-a-half years' jail on 26 fraud charges....
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JUST HELPING YOURSELF
14 November 2006
Source: Daily Telegraph

ONE in five Australian businesses are affected by fraud and many may not even be aware of it, says a leading employment law specialist....
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WARNING BELLS RING ON FAKE DEGREES
2005
Source: CNN – http://edition.cnn.com

For business school graduates, receiving a degree certificate is the culmination of years of hard work and dedication. Yet thousands of people manage to obtain certificates without ever attending a class, sitting an exam or even opening a text book....
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NHS CHIEF FAKED HIS CV TO LAND £115,000-A-YEAR JOB
18 August 2005
Source: The Guardian (UK)

A former hospital chief executive has admitted making up qualifications on his CV to land his £115,000-a-year post....
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FAKE PSYCHIATRIST HEADS OVERSEAS
August 2005
Source: The Courier Mail

FAKE psychiatrist and suspected paedophile Vincent Berg has followed Dr Jayant Patel's lead and fled the country....
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BOGUS QUALIFICATIONS
2004
Source: Queensland Government - http://education.qld.gov.au

In recent years there has been an enormous increase in the availability of counterfeit and substandard university degrees. The trade in these 'fake degrees' is now proliferating on the internet, and occurs in every country, including Australia .....
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