With Interest CPA podcast: inside Operation Protego
Michael Morton, assistant commissioner at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), talks about the ATO-led Serious Financial Crime Taskforce and multi-agency Operation Protego.
Focused on GST fraud, the taskforce executed a series of warrants across Australia in recent months, and ultimately referred the details of 29,000 individuals to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission for attempted fraud of more than A$1 billion, and potentially fraudulent payments up to of A$850 million.