AN Ulladulla man charged with fraud offences totalling close to $5 million has been refused bail in Nowra Local Court.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
Daniel Kiss, 39, of Coral Crescent was charged by detectives from State Crime Command’s Fraud and Cybercrime Squad after being arrested by officers from the Shoalhaven Local Area Command on Sunday in relation to common assault and intimidation offences.
Kiss, who was also wanted on an outstanding warrant for major fraud offences, was taken to Nowra Police Station and charged with numerous offences, including common assault, use intimidation/violence to unlawfully influence a person and recklessly deal with the proceeds of crime.
The recklessly deal with the proceeds of crime charge relates to his alleged involvement in defrauding a bank out of $4.92 million.
Strike Force McMaster, a Fraud and Cybercrime Squad investigation, was established to investigate alleged mortgage and equipment finance fraud, whereby a number of dummy companies were set up and fake invoices were used to obtain finance.
Court papers reveal Kiss has been charged with numerous alleged assaults of two women with whom he had been involved in domestic relationships, ranging in a period of four years with one and six months with the other.
In one instance it is alleged Kiss, who is trained in the martial art Muay Thai, assaulted one of the women by trying to choke her and then hit her in the head when she was five months pregnant.
In a separate incident it was stated he also banged a woman’s head into the kitchen sink on a number of occasions.
He was refused bail and reappeared in Nowra Local Court on Monday, before Magistrate Dr Gabriel Fleming.
Bail was not applied for and was formally refused and the matter will be back in Nowra Local Court on December 2.
Strike Force McMaster investigators have charged 21 people with a total of 381 offences for frauds with a combined value in excess of $36 million.