Son of former deputy tax commissioner sentenced for his role in major conspiracy after marathon trial
The son of a former deputy tax commissioner who ripped off taxpayers for millions of dollars has been jailed for at least a decade.
They conspired to cause a loss to the commonwealth and deal with the proceeds of crime between March 2014 until their arrests in May 2017. Justice Anthony Payne rejected any suggestion Cranston was misled over the scheme, labelling suggestions the conspirator thought Plutus was a profitable company as “preposterous”.
Plutus’s legitimate clients were not informed about the firm’s use of the second-tier companies as part of the scam.Cranston personally received more than $6.8m for his efforts.“If this was fully uncovered and they knew exactly what was going on it’d be f***ing Ben Hur, man,” Cranston said in one intercepted conversation.
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