An accountant has been accused of enabling criminal activity and falsifying documents to help an alleged member of the Alameddine crime organisation buy a million dollar house.
George Jack Michael was arrested on May 13 after a strike force comprising specialised officers and the NSW Crime Commission conducted a raid on a taxation office in Sydney's CBD.
Officers allegedly located a number of physical and electronic financial records relating to members of the high-profile crime network, and took Michael into custody.
The arrest was the culmination of a three-year investigation into allegations the 43-year-old was responsible for facilitating money and fraud on behalf of the crime network.
Police allege he wrote bogus accountant's letters and falsified business activity statements to assist an alleged member of the Alameddine crime ring secure $1.125 million to buy a home in western Sydney.
The letters lied about the person's financial position and employment in order to secure the hefty sum, police claim.
Michael has been charged with two counts of publishing false misleading material to obtain a financial advantage and two counts of making a false document to obtain financial advantage.
He is expected to enter pleas when the matter returns to court in August, his lawyer told Burwood Local Court on Thursday.
Michael is on bail and was excused from attending court.
One of his clients, an alleged member of the Alameddine criminal syndicate, was also charged in relation to the mortgage fraud.
The 30-year-old man allegedly orchestrated the false mortgage application for a property worth more than $1 million to disguise himself as the beneficiary.
