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Organised Crime Networks Targeting Disabled Australians
EXPOSED: Organised Crime Networks Targeting Disabled Australians
How heartless organised crime gangs are targeting Australia's most vulnerable by extorting intellectually and physically disabled victims
- Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme is being rorted by criminals
- Death threats and standover tactics are being used against disabled people
- Criminal networks are taking up to an estimated $6billion out of the NDIS
- Every dollar rorted from system is a dollar not spent on those who need it
60 Minutes Australia 17 Aug 2022
Keiko (centre) and Mark Gray are the parents of 23-year-old Ken (left) who has Down Syndrome. Ken's NDIS funding was slashed with no explanation
It’s a sad reality of life that some truly awful people walk among us. However, the title of “most despicable” must surely go to members of the organised crime networks who have been targeting vulnerable Australians in order to rip off the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The NDIS is supposed to be a lifeline to protect and support people with disabilities and their families. Billions have been poured into making it work.
But as Nick McKenzie reports in this joint investigation by 60 MINUTES, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, all that money has proven an irresistible magnet for criminals. Thankfully though, one of Australia’s most senior crime fighters has now promised to stop the lowlifes and end the big steal
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