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Article: Vic: Jail for taxi driver who falsely claimed $52,000
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- December 10, 1999
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AAP General News (Australia)
12-10-1999
Vic: Jail for taxi driver who falsely claimed $52,000
By Catherine Chisholm
MELBOURNE, Dec 10 AAP - A Melbourne taxi driver who worked two jobs while fraudulently
claiming more than $52,000 in workers' compensation was jailed today.
Douglas Armstrong, 60, pleaded guilty to 156 charges of obtaining property and financial
advantage by deception, through fraudulent WorkCover claims.
Bernie Fitzgerald, for WorkCover, told Melbourne Magistrates' Court that Armstrong
had worked as a taxi driver and as a butcher and had earned a gross amount of $92,388,
at the same time as he was drawing compensation.
In the same period, he had been paid $52,786 in ...
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