Abuse things like unemployment boom in recent years, especially during the pandemic. This abuse It seems that this is not just the US. An Australian man was arrested for owning a Lamborghini despite having received unemployment benefits for the past five years.
Road & Track Authorities in New South Wales, Australia, have seized a Lamborghini Huracán and other luxury items from a 39-year-old unemployed man. They discovered he had been receiving unemployment benefits since 2019. With the sole purpose of helping you while you look for another job, you might find it problematic to own a quarter-million dollar supercar. The seizure was the result of an investigation that began in May, according to Road and Rail.
In May, detectives from the State Crime Command’s Organised Crime Squad and the NSW Crime Commission launched an investigation into the unexplained wealth of individuals allegedly linked to organised crime networks. Two months later, detectives executed a search warrant at the Lamborghini’s owner’s home in Parramatta, New South Wales — a suburb of Sydney — where they found the blue Lamborghini as well as the aforementioned watches and motorbike, the latter painted in Lambo colours.
The links to the criminal underworld come as no surprise. Authorities say the items totaled $500,000 AUD, or just over $335,000 USD. The man has now been charged with “dishonest possession tampering with a unique identifier” and is awaiting trial in early October. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen someone using money that wasn’t theirs to buy cars. In late 2023, a man used a $180 million cheque fraud scheme to build an impressive car collection of 280 cars and was eventually auctioned.
