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Harvard Cheat Pleads Not Guilty

» NSW Libs Query Murder's Ambulance Job
» 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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NSW MAN BANNED FROM PROVIDING FINANCIAL SERVICES FOR FIVE YEARS
19 July 2010
Source:
www.asic.gov.au

Mr Barry Frank Jennings of Berry, New South Wales, has been banned from providing financial services for five years by ASIC....Read Full Article

 

CHECKMATE
July 2010

Read about some PeopleCheck Porkies and understand more about National Criminal Record History Checks.  Meet our Operations Director and catch up with what has been happening in the news.

 

PEOPLECHECK UPCLOSE - NATIONAL CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS.pdf
July 2010 

Find out more about Australian National Criminal History Record Checks.  Read about the Spent Conviction Scheme, What information will be disclosed and what to do if there is a match.

 

FAKE DOCTOR BALAJI VARATHARAJU SENT TO JAIL
16 June 2010
Source: The Daily Telegraph

AN "overachieving and altruistic" man who was not a qualified doctor but treated up to 400 patients at Alice Springs Hospital will spend at least 14 months in jail....Read Full Article

 

ENGINEER FALISIFIED RESUME, ICAC TOLD
1 June 2010
Source: The Daily Telegraph

A SYDNEY engineer who allegedly offered a $15,000 bribe to secure a lucrative council job yesterday admitted he falsified almost all his resumé....Read Full Article

 

ENGINEER DON GAMAGE LIED ON JOB APPLICATIONS 'FOR BENEFIT OF NSW PEOPLE'
31 May 2010
Source: The Daily Telepgraph

A FORMER RTA engineer says he lied on job applications because otherwise the people of NSW would have missed the benefit of his services....Read Full Article

 

DAMNING OMBUDSMAN REPORT INFO FORSTER, KINSHIP AND RESIDENTIAL CARE
19 May 2010
Source: www.heraldsun.com.au

VULNERABLE children in out-of-home care are being raped, left with drug dealers and turning to prostitution....Read Full Article

 

HARVARD CHEAT PLEADS NOT GUILTY
19 May 2010
Source: The Daily Telepgraph

AN American man who attended Harvard University for two years before getting kicked out has pleaded not guilty to charges he fabricated a perfect record of academic achievement to get into the Ivy League school...Read Full Article

 

NSW LIBS QUERY MURDER'S AMBULANCE JOB
May 2010
Source: www.news.smh.com.au

The NSW government must explain how convicted murderer Des Campbell was employed by the NSW Ambulance Service despite a previous conviction for assault, the state opposition says.... Read Full Article

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.....Read Full Article

 

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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