By Australian Associated Press
Published: 02:19 BST, 9 May 2019 | Updated: 02:59 BST, 9 May 2019
More than a dozen people have been charged over an elaborate scheme involving a fake family daycare business in New South Wales that allegedly defrauded taxpayers of about $4 million.
Police allege the company's director alone had a take-home pay of $30,000 a fortnight from the fraudulent activity, described as more sophisticated and better co-ordinated than bikie gangs.
Three men - aged 24, 40 and 49 - and 15 women - aged between 21 and 44 - were arrested on Wednesday after raids on 23 properties in Sydney's southwest and the Illawarra region.
More than a dozen people have been charged over an elaborate scheme involving a fake family daycare business in New South Wales that allegedly defrauded taxpayers of about $4million (pictured is one of the arrests)
Seventeen of those have
