Ulverstone Returned Servicemen’s Club – Fraud Charges laid

Charges Laid – Ulverstone Returned Servicemen’s Club Fraud

As a result of a 13 month Investigation conducted by the Devonport Criminal Investigation Branch and the Ulverstone Returned Servicemen’s Club (URSC), a 49yr old Miandetta man, has today been charged with numerous fraud related offences.

The charges include stealing by agent, fraudulent false accounting, damaging computer data, forgery and uttering, and false statements by an officer of a company.

It will be alleged that the offences involve the theft of in excess of $470,000. He has been bailed to appear in the Devonport Magistrates Court on 9th February 2016.

A police investigation commenced into the matter after a member of the club detected anomalies in the club’s financial figures presented at the 2014 Annual General Meeting.