Financial Crimes Squad detectives have charged a telecommunications employee with allegedly accessing customer information without authorisation and selling it to criminal groups.
In July 2026, detectives from the State Crime Command's Financial Crimes Squad received a referral from Queensland Police regarding a 30-year-old man who allegedly unlawfully accessed customer records through his employment and sold that information to a third party.
Police will allege the stolen information was then used by criminal groups to commit fraud offences against multiple victims.
Following extensive inquiries, about 9.30am today (Thursday 27 August 2026) detectives arrested a 30-year-old man at Liverpool Police Station.
He was charged with 34 offences, including twelve counts of deal with identity info to commit indictable offence, twelve counts of unauthorised function with intent to commit a serious offence and ten counts of agent corruptly receive benefit.
The man was refused bail to appear at Liverpool Local Court today.
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