{"id":10067,"date":"2021-01-28T05:52:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T05:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10067"},"modified":"2021-01-28T05:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T05:52:20","slug":"man-charged-over-alleged-bushfire-fraud-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/01\/28\/man-charged-over-alleged-bushfire-fraud-central-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over alleged bushfire fraud \u2013 Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged over alleged fraud relating to bushfire support recovery grants.<br \/>\nStrike Force Roche was established by several police districts within the Northern Region to investigate alleged fraudulent claims for bushfire disaster relief and small business grants through government agencies.<br \/>\nFollowing extensive inquiries, detectives from Lake Macquarie Police District charged a 28-year-old man with six counts of dishonestly obtain financial benefit by deception and two counts of attempt dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception.<br \/>\nPolice will allege in court the man fraudulently obtained six NSW Government grants, receiving a total of $60,000 and attempted to obtain a further two NSW Government grants totalling $20,000.<br \/>\nThe man is due to appear at Belmont Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/3\">on Friday 29 January 2021<\/a>.<br \/>\nInvestigations under the strike force are ongoing across multiple police districts in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged over alleged fraud relating to bushfire support recovery grants. Strike Force Roche was established by several police districts within the Northern Region to investigate alleged fraudulent claims for bushfire disaster relief and small business grants through government agencies. Following extensive inquiries, detectives from Lake Macquarie Police District charged a 28-year-old &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/01\/28\/man-charged-over-alleged-bushfire-fraud-central-coast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged over alleged bushfire fraud \u2013 Central Coast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}