Whether “more than $27 million in Commonwealth childcare benefits and rebates claimed since 2012” was funneled overseas to fund murderous jihadi activity is being investigated, particularly based on the travel patterns of those under investigation. It is entirely possible that the hard-earned dollars of the Australian people went to the jihad.
In addition, the thought of jihadist warriors being involved with family day care is highly disturbing. Whether or not any of them were ever near children is one thing, but they certainly had free access to children through an allegedly fraudulent family daycare operation, “right under the noses of federal and New South Wales education, welfare and health authorities.”
“Two men charged with childcare fraud in multi-million-dollar counter-terrorism investigation,” by Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, ABC News, August 12, 2016:
Two men have been charged with fraud and another two have been questioned in a multi-million-dollar Australian Federal Police (AFP) counter-terrorism and fraud investigation that has exposed gaping holes in Australia’s childcare system.
The AFP this week raided the Lakemba family day care businesses of brothers Mohammad and Ibrahim Omar, aged 27 and 25, over more than $27 million in Commonwealth childcare benefits and rebates claimed since 2012 by the nearly 600 home providers of family day care on their books.
Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether millions of dollars in childcare subsidies and rebates have been rorted and sent offshore, under the noses of federal and New South Wales education, welfare and health authorities.
Two family day care educators on the Omars’ books were arrested this week and charged with defrauding the Commonwealth.
One of the men, 22-year-old Ali Assaad, is the secretary of Sydney charity Dar al Quran wa Sunnah, which employed a man accused by Lebanese authorities of funding the Islamic State terrorist group.
Police allege Assaad collected more than $152,000 in child care benefits in the past financial year and claimed to be looking after children in his Moorebank home in Sydney’s south-west when he was actually in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Assaad, an administrator at Sydney Islamic centre Markaz Imam Ahmad, was preparing to travel to Saudi Arabia when he was arrested on Wednesday.
He was released on bail by a Sydney court on Thursday night on the conditions he surrender his passport to the AFP and not attempt to leave the country.
The main target of the AFP investigation was 26-year-old waterproofer Hussain Dandachi, who was arrested in a raid on his Old Guildford home on Thursday night.
The investigation, codenamed Operation Rheinfels, was launched last October after Dandachi was blocked from boarding an international flight at Sydney Airport and his passport was cancelled.
Dandachi faced a Sydney court on Friday charged with obtaining financial advantage by deception, dishonestly causing loss to the Commonwealth and making false or misleading statements in an application.
7.30 understands police have not located the funds that have been allegedly defrauded.
The AFP is expecting to make more arrests as part of the investigation.
The alleged scam
AFP investigators are scouring the records of Mohammad and Ibrahim Omar’s family daycare companies and their nearly-600 home family day care providers, which were seized in raids across Sydney this week.
Police are investigating providers for claiming benefits and rebates for children that never existed, were documented as being cared for by several providers at once and had falsified immunisation records.
Each child is required to have a customer reference number, which can only be obtained by visiting a Department of Human Services centre and providing identity documents including a birth certificate and a bank statement.
The family day care scheme is overseen by the federal Education Department but regulated by state education departments, which are responsible for inspections of providers.
Family day care educators can look after up to seven children in their own home and must pass criminal history and Working With Children checks.
The charity
Police say that during three periods between August 2015 and May 2016, Ali Assaad claimed to be looking after children at his home in Moorebank in southwest Sydney.
However, on all three occasions, Assaad was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia….

David says
Is the “solution” here to bring in more savage and barbaric muslims?
I think the parents of children around the world would say NO !
Muskims and children do not mix well. I know that most guns have been banned in Australia, but some are still legal. If I lived anywhere near (50-100 miles?) a muslim enclave, I would join with my fellow citizens jyst to be sure the Muslim savages NEVER even got near my kids!
Kunal says
Everybody’s gotta take care of that. These guys are real good brainwashers can make anyone work for them. And target little girls too. Just like they are doing in Britain.
NeMontrancher says
My God, who would ever leave their children with one of them?
Damocles Junior says
To David. It is not only kids. many Australian women are fearful of hiring a taxi with a Muslim driver, just too many sexual assaults have taken place. Just remember, where these savages come from it is unthinkable for any woman, let alone an attractively dressed young woman, to get into a car with a driver who is not a close relative.
Unfortunately the child care industry and/or honesty are also foreign concepts to these savages but they can certainly see it as a good opportunity to get big money out of Australia’s generous welfare system, a system that also relies of the honesty of most people.
Generally speaking I do not think any Australian parent would put their child in the care of an Arab day care centre.
Transmaster says
Wonder how many millions are going to Jihad from the US by WOI’s defrauding medicare, Obamacare, Workman’s Comp’, etc, etc,etc. In Los Angles illegal aliens borrow neighborhood children and take them down to the local food stamp offices present them as their own children where they get vouchers for milk which they then sell on the street for cash. The people working at these places know exactly what they are doing but they can’t touch them because they are Democratic voters.
Linde Barrera says
To Transmaster- As per your 11:04 am Oct. 4, 2016 comment, WOW! THAT IS OUTRIGHT FRAUD. Where are the “overseers” or “compliance people” that are supposed to ensure that this fraudulent activity doesn’t occur?
Damocles Junior says
One answer to your question (Lynde Barera) is that too many ethnic minorities are hired in government departments under various diversity target programs. Needless to say these mainly junior officials will tend to “look after their own” whenever the opportunity arises. Often this can be deliberate compliant fraud such as when Mr Hussein or Mr Abdul suddenly find they have a cousin working in the social welfare or workers compensation office.
faraway says
We’re discovering that muslims are untrustworthy and so unemployable in more and more jobs.
Vicki says
You’re absolutely right. No denying that they are a bain on society.
Steve says
Read the majority of responses to this article and tell me most are not ‘looking out for their own’, and this is a country dominated 80% by their own race. FFS if I was a minority here, and fortunate enough to get a public sector job, I’d think twice about doing anything illegal or non-compliant. What I would do is that I would use everything in my power to help any struggling minorities to the best of my abilities to get the best they are entitled to.
Now tell me, if you were in a foreign country working for a government unemployment agency, that you wouldn’t do the same for a struggling Aussie family who asked for your help.
It doesn’t take an intellectual to empathise with the plights of others, but you do have to make an effort o engage your brain.
Mirren10 says
They are *criminals*. You are a moron.
Jay Boo says
Girl scouts sell cookies.
Airport security very concerned.
Homeland Security reviewing no fly list.
Angemon says
Considering what’s in islamic orthodoxy, financial fraud is probably the least damaging option – we could be talking about mass child grooming and abuse.
Mirren10 says
God, those *faces*. Blech. I need some eye bleach.
Steve says
Wow. You should have been born in Germany in 1920.
Mirren10 says
Why ? Because I intimated they were ugly ? Perhaps *you* think they are a handsome pair. Idiot.
rara says
At the same time in Austria (no kangaroos there!) Europe:
http://derstandard.at/2000045312728/Saudi-Schule-Gericht-hebt-Schulschliessung-auf
the Saudi Arabian private school was sued and was officially, by the court decision, allowed to teach using the racist school books that were found on their premises.
The decision of the court is apparently “the law says that the schools have to prove that the school materials are in accordance to the law which forbids the racism, but it never states that the school books are the school materials, so the Saudi school is not doing anything that allows its closure by these paragraphs when it uses the school books that contain the racism against the Jews”
The court accepted the arguments of the lawyers probably paid by the Saudis.
https://www.vwgh.gv.at/rechtsprechung/aktuelle_entscheidungen/2016/ro_2016100016.pdf
John says
Yet another example of a ‘welfare’ program being corrupted and exploited for criminal gain. An excellent example of why virtually ALL welfare programs should be shut down except perhaps where the aid is directly administered to people who have been properly vetted and deemed in need of food, shelter or medical care; e.g., people who are manifestly homeless and destitute. Otherwise, programs where 3rd parties are involved ostensibly to render care [in this case for imaginary children] where no authority of the state is directly involved will continue to bilk the public coffers and the taxpayers that support them.
Shame on the Australian government for running a program with so little oversight.
Benedict says
Deport them and their families back to their country of origin
JIMJFOX says
Who says they are not Australian-born, idiot??
Vicki says
In regard to that. There are laws that are old but you can be exiled from your country of birth, proving sedition or traitorous behaviours, I do believe. It could be an English law, but one of my ancestors was forced to immigrate, he went to America then he came here, and changed his name on arrival.
Steve says
Well asked.
melancholy observer says
Our Prime-minister Turnbull should have his passport cancelled. He goes over to Obama’s cooked up Refugee conference in New York and pretentiously announces an increase in AUstralia’s refugee intake from 13,500 per year to 19,500 per year. More crime, more local fraud, more Jihadic intimidation, more threatening public behavior. Congratulations Mr Turnbull and you have the effrontery to claim Australia has big economic problems. You have just added billions more to the national debt by your foolish and posturing behavior to appease the scoundrel Obama. Of course its not your money. For God’s sake wake up AUstralia!
Eric Jones says
I must ask the question how reliable are the criminal history and working with children checks are. There is no mention of certified training being required for those working at these centers. These child care centers should be inspected at least annually, with many of the inspections be done on a surprise basis. In cases that warrant it the homes of where these children supposedly live should be inspected.
Eric
JIMJFOX says
WHY are official documents [passports, birth certs, etc ] NOT encoded with DNA or other biometric data that cannot be falsified? Passports are easily forged, it seems, even the latest ‘secure’ versions.
As DNA and biometrics become quicker, cheaper and more reliable, we still rely on ‘signatures’ that are worthless. And personal cheques still exist!!
Go figure.
Ken says
Government , always reactive never pro active.
I have given up on both major parties, they are more interested in getting elected than governing.
Never again vote for a major party, find a minor party that you can get behind and vote for them at least you know who you are getting, they wont change leadership and often you can call and speak to them directly, you will find they are working for you.
Both parties have implemented policy that have destroyed the manufacturing base in Australia which is jobs, jobs, jobs. Who but the politicians benefited from the free trade deals. No one I know.
Chris Cross says
If I said to you that our cultures have been deliberately subverted and set-up to allow socialism to control Australia and then used against it by the very same architects you would call me a conspiracy theorist.
Go and read Coudenhove-Kalergi practical idealism and the Oded Yinon plan and all the other racist supremacist stuff out there. Have a look at who the Charlemagne prize is given to. The European prize, Pan European movement, European Union, who founded and funded the United Nations.
These people like Soros (proxy for others) through Illya Sheyman and MoveOn.org funding splinter groups that are corrosive to societies, BLM creating division to allow to conquer. Offer the solutions to problems they create, Agenda 2021, 2030.
There is evil in the world folks, and Islam is owned and controlled by it as much as everyone else.