Two women have been charged after allegedly defrauding a 95-year-old man of more than $800,000 while he was being cared for on the NSW South Coast.
In December 2019, detectives from South Coast Police District commenced an investigation after reports of an alleged fraud targeting the elderly man.
Following extensive inquiries, detectives attended a home in Sanctuary Point and arrested a 59-year-old woman.
She was taken to Nowra Police Station and charged with dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception.
Police will allege in court that between February 2018 and July 2020, the woman transferred in excess of $275,000 from the man’s account, while caring for him.
The Sanctuary Point woman was granted conditional bail to appear in Nowra Local Court on December 21.
Following further inquiries, a 62-year-old woman was issued a Court Attendance Notice yesterday.
She was charged with four counts of dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception.
Police will allege in court that the woman, who was employed as the man’s solicitor, altered the man’s will to list the two women as beneficiaries to his estate, and assisted the younger woman with the purchase of a home, without the man’s knowledge.
The Vincentia woman is due to appear in Nowra Local Court on January 11 next year.
