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AU: Lawyers duped by paramedic injury fraud

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Dissent

Kelly Burke reports:

A government employee who duped some of Sydney’s leading law firms by selling the personal details of 130 injured paramedics pocketed more than $200,000 before walking out of court with a good behaviour bond.

NSW Ambulance’s former injury management co-ordinator Waqar Ahmad Malik gained access to a list of injured paramedics the NSW Government feared might sue for compensation. The list included medical records and psychiatric assessments.

Malik then spruiked the data to legal firms who could access the potentially money making list via paid membership to an “advisory panel”.

Read more on Daily Telegraph.


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