CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 11 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
A Melbourne man has been sentenced today (11 February, 2025) for creating false accounts to disguise payments made to Malaysian public officials and their associates to facilitate the purchase of his property developments in 2013.
The man, 72, pleaded guilty on 29 October, 2024, to one count of false accounting, and was sentenced to 21 months' suspended imprisonment by the County Court of Victoria.
The AFP commenced an investigation in February, 2015, into the man, his associated companies and a number of Melbourne property developments.
The man acquired three properties around a university campus in Caulfield East and developed them into student ho...