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Moranbah-based, 29-year-old Scott James Ward pleaded guilty to the Mackay Magistrates Court over a series of fraud charges.
According to the Daily Mercury, he received $13,000 from labour hire companies over work he never did. The scheme involved completing time sheets for labour hire companies which would later invoice mine employers.
“In one fraud matter, he claimed and was paid $9030 but he had not been on the work site,” the newspaper reported.
“In a separate case, in 2014, Ward was paid $4288 while falsifying time sheets, wrongly claiming he worked at the Saraji mine.”
He plead guilty to other crimes which included not paying $2344 for mechanical work on his Holden ute and not paying $7800 for a motorbike he bought, with the owner later tracking him down through Facebook.
Ward also pleaded guilty to drink driving offences, removing a police immobilisation label on his van, using stolen number plates on his van and driving while disqualified. He will serve a minimum of nine months in jail as part of the sentence.
