The Sydney District Court has sentenced Md Zahidul Kabir’s to five years in jail, after being convicted of taking more than $75,000 from his clients and the ATO.
The joint ATO and AFP investigation for that Mr Kabir fraudulently used 16 of his clients’ tax file numbers to lodge false tax returns resulting in the wrongful payment of tax refunds into his own bank accounts.
It also found Mr Kabir laundered money from 22 other taxpayers by withdrawing their tax refunds from their bank accounts without their knowledge.