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An Australia-based Nigerian, Foluso Omole, is facing trial over his alleged role in a $5m fraud involving the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

PUNCH Metro learnt on Wednesday, from a report published by ABC News on Monday, that Omole was arrested by operatives of the Australian Federal Police at Adelaide Airport last Friday while allegedly attempting to flee Australia.

According to the report, Omole had allegedly “cut ties” in Adelaide and was preparing to travel to Nigeria before his arrest, a court heard.

The 38-year-old appeared before the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday, where his bail application was refused following allegations that he had attempted to leave Australia for Nigeria.

The court heard that Omole, a dual Australian and Nigerian citizen, had “purchased a one-way ticket to Nigeria” before his arrest.

A prosecutor also told the court that Omole appeared to have “sent, over the course of his offending, significant funds back to Nigeria”, where his wife resides.

The report stated that Omole was working as an NDIS coordinator and operating two businesses that employed several staff at the time of the alleged offences.

The prosecutor reportedly told the court that Omole allegedly received information “improperly” from a woman employed by the National Disability Insurance Agency over a period of six years and “used that information to obtain benefit fraudulently”.

The woman, who has also been charged in connection with the alleged fraud, was expected to appear in court on Thursday.

However, disputing the allegation that Omole intended to flee Australia, his lawyer, Mark Twiggs, told the court that his client had informed him that he planned to travel to London on a “return ticket” purchased before any raid on the woman’s home.

sultanofpigs:
Nlfpmod , this is not a NIGERIAN, this is an Australian

SeeWahala:
Peterobiisathie I promise when I read and reached anywhere they wrote NAMES I immediately closed my eyes and formed blindness

Iamfraud will be so proud 👏

Kalashnikov49:
Nigerians should desist from all these fraud business..

Its becoming worse..

Kalashnikov49:
Nigerians should desist from all these fraud business..

Its becoming worse..

dettolgel:
Where is Abike and her hounds?

HacheNoire:
Sigh….

The Australian government is not creating jobs and why he went into fraud.

That’s the excuse they give as fraud starts in Nigeria, and when they travel and repeat same, I think that same excuse is valid .

A thief will always be a thief. Forget the excuse they give about bad economy or unemployment. Put them inside Google or Microsoft head office and these people will still steal.

Never ready to work or critically think with their brains. All they have in their brains is how to steal from someone else or institution, and our society will even praise them and call them “YAHOO BOYS”

People we should be calling out and calling them thief directly.