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| Alice St Goodna between Church St and Bertha St as the floodwaters recede in January 2011 |
An Ipswich man who made a fake claim to gain $11,000 in emergency relief grants by lying about the flood damage done to property in his house has been handed a suspended prison sentence.
There are currently reportedly more than 1000 cases of flood grant fraud before the courts, including Tuafoa Ete who lied in a statutory declaration and listed items lost at his Goodna home in January last year.
He was handed $11,000 but police investigated and discovered many of the items hadn't been destroyed at his home west of Brisbane.
Magistrate Michael Quinn told Ete he hoped he was "thoroughly ashamed" of himself, telling the defendant "you took advantage of money that was there for people who lost".
www.BrisbaneTimes.com.au
13.8.12
