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applications that obtained home loans totalling more than $9 million. Justice Dixon sentenced Ms Huynh to four years and two months imprisonment with a minimum of two years, taking into account her early plea of guilty, good prospects of rehabilitation and offer to assist in the prosecution of co-offenders. “Your counsel told me that you are shunned by your local community and, in evidence, your husband described your reaction of remorse, shame and embarrassment following on the dis-
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A BRIMBANK mortgage broker has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to a scam which obtained home loans totalling more than $9 million. The Supreme Court has heard Kieu Thi Huynh, who also pleaded guilty to one charge of attempting to obtain a financial advantage by deception, was the owner of a business called St Andrews Mortgage Solutions in St Albans and Sunshine. Between November 2007 and Feb-
ruary 2013, financial institutions approved home loans using fraudulent information and falsified documents which St Andrews Mortgage Solutions supplied on behalf of clients. ‘Operation Squid’ uncovered the deception by cross-referencing home loan applications with documents from the Australian Tax Office, Centrelink and financial institutions. Supreme Court Justice John Dixon said Ms Huynh, 44, used a financial calculating program to establish the minimum wages required for monthly
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