This is the face of a Millennial crime wave: there’s the party guy, there’s the bovver boy and then there’s Mr Invisible, the guy who leaves no tracks.
The Plutus Payroll scam, one of the largest alleged tax frauds in Australian history, was run by a handful of 20- to 30-year-olds, Gen Y stereotypes with recurrent Mummy and Daddy issues.
Seven weeks after the Plutus Payroll arrests made headlines around the country, a very different picture is emerging of how the scam worked, and of the Australian Federal police investigation that cracked it.
What’s now clear from documents in the many court cases under way is that the tangled links in the scandal go wider, and farther back, than first reported the alleged fraud began the day that Plut…
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