Morehu-Barlow's criminal record stretched back to 1998 in New Zealand when he defrauded his employer of about $32,000 and he was convicted in 1999 and given an eight-month, non-residential sentence.
In September 2007 he committed his first fraud at Queensland Health, funnelling a few thousand dollars into his own bank account. It grew from there with Morehu-Barlow setting up a fake charity called Healthy Initiatives and Choices and authorising Queensland Health grants to this body.
To uncover the fraud all someone in the department had to do was put the Australian Business Number into a free website search and they would have been led to Morehu-Barlow's name and he had even listed his own Teneriffe address and phone number as the contacts for the organisation.
Queensland Health came close to busting him when they conducted an audit and one transaction to Healthy Initiatives and Choices was selected at random to be checked. They requested the documentation from Morehu-Barlow but he just simply did not hand it over and they did not chase it up.
A simple fraud; bound to be discovered but not until December 2011!
Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/from-scavenging-for-food-to-a-multimilliondollar-lifestyle-built-on-fraud-20130319-2gd64.html#ixzz2O2WCuAv3
& more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-19/fake-prince-gets-14-years-jail-over-16m-fraud/4581720
& more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/fake-prince-splashed-the-cash-at-clubs-20130319-2gd6p.html
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