Two people have been charged after detectives seized luxury cars, jewellery and a cache of wine during a probe into an alleged $10 million fraud on an automotive group. / (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading NSW Police on Thursday revealed a seven-month investigation had uncovered a group allegedly using stolen information from more than 30 people to buy luxury cars that did not exist. One alleged participant, Antonia Suntsova, was arrested in May following a search of a home at Middleton Grange in southwest Sydney.
The 31-year-old was charged with 102 counts of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception. According to court documents seen by AAP, she allegedly issued millions of dollars of fraudulent loans to Toyota and Volkswagen and claimed sales commissions off those loans from McCarroll Automotive Group in the Sydney suburb of Artarmon. She was also hit with one count of possessing a prohibited drug after police allegedly found 31 grams of magic mushrooms at the Middleton Grange home on the day of her arrest.
Suntsova has been granted strict conditional bail and will next appear at Downing Centre Local Court on October 3. Following further investigations, detectives searched a home in Carlingford and a warehouse unit in Alexandria in the early hours of Wednesday. They seized a Tesla sedan, a Mercedes Benz van, multiple Rolex watches, large amounts of luxury jewellery, and an estimated $200,000 worth of wine and other alcohol.
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