SA: Centrelink worker set up 26 fake accounts

AAP General News (Australia)
04-15-2010
SA: Centrelink worker set up 26 fake accounts

A court's heard a former Centrelink worker set up 26 fake customer accounts to obtain
more than 66 thousand dollars in benefits.

KEVIN LEE MCINERHENEY's been sentenced to four years jail .. after pleading guilty
to 30 counts of obtaining property by deception from December 2008 to March 2009 .. while
working with Centrelink in Adelaide.

The 33-year-old devised a scheme to make payments using electronic benefit transfers
.. which are cards used by Centrelink staff to make one-off emergency payments to customers
requiring urgent financial assistance.

The cards come with a PIN and can be cashed at any bank ATM.

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KEYWORD: MCINERHENEY (ADELAIDE)

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