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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21154164-5005961,00.html
Men sentenced over fines rort
February 01, 2007 05:34pm
TWO Sydney company directors have received custodial sentences for signing false declarations that they were not the drivers of cars caught speeding.
The directors of the Budget Demolition and Excavation building company, Samaan Habib and Nabil Koubersi, paid a man $75 and signed blank statutory declarations in order to avoid the demerit points incurred by the speeding offences, Downing Centre Local Court was told.
Habib, 49, pleaded guilty to signing the blank statutory declaration in February 2006, in relation to an offence committed in December the previous year.
Koubersi, 42, pleaded guilty to signing the blank declaration in May 2006, in relation to a traffic offence that occurred on Anzac Day the same year.
Both men were sentenced to six months' periodic detention at the Metropolitan Periodic Detention Centre, beginning on February 9, with a non-parole period of two months.
South Australian cancer sufferer Dimitrios Vassos was later listed as the man responsible for the two driving offences, just two of 302 offences falsely attributed to Mr. Vassos that police are investigating.
Police have charged 140 people over the false statutory declarations attributed to Mr. Vassos, following an audit of more than 700,000 statutory declarations submitted in the past three years.
The audit was trigged by the publicity over the case of retired Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld, who had a speeding charge dismissed in August after signing a statutory declaration saying he had lent his car to an old friend.
It was later revealed the female friend had died before the offence happened.
Sentencing Habib and Koubersi today, Magistrate Les Brennan said the pair had tried to "sidestep" New South Wales licensing provisions and by doing so may have posed a "danger to other drivers".
"There is a need to ensure persons on the road are driving correctly," he said of the men, both from Guildford in western Sydney.
"Statutory declarations are sworn in front of justices of the peace. They ought to be taken seriously, people ought to be able to rely on them.
"To my mind what they have done has attacked the very heart of the administration of justice."
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21154164-5005961,00.html
Men sentenced over fines rort
February 01, 2007 05:34pm
TWO Sydney company directors have received custodial sentences for signing false declarations that they were not the drivers of cars caught speeding.
The directors of the Budget Demolition and Excavation building company, Samaan Habib and Nabil Koubersi, paid a man $75 and signed blank statutory declarations in order to avoid the demerit points incurred by the speeding offences, Downing Centre Local Court was told.
Habib, 49, pleaded guilty to signing the blank statutory declaration in February 2006, in relation to an offence committed in December the previous year.
Koubersi, 42, pleaded guilty to signing the blank declaration in May 2006, in relation to a traffic offence that occurred on Anzac Day the same year.
Both men were sentenced to six months' periodic detention at the Metropolitan Periodic Detention Centre, beginning on February 9, with a non-parole period of two months.
South Australian cancer sufferer Dimitrios Vassos was later listed as the man responsible for the two driving offences, just two of 302 offences falsely attributed to Mr. Vassos that police are investigating.
Police have charged 140 people over the false statutory declarations attributed to Mr. Vassos, following an audit of more than 700,000 statutory declarations submitted in the past three years.
The audit was trigged by the publicity over the case of retired Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld, who had a speeding charge dismissed in August after signing a statutory declaration saying he had lent his car to an old friend.
It was later revealed the female friend had died before the offence happened.
Sentencing Habib and Koubersi today, Magistrate Les Brennan said the pair had tried to "sidestep" New South Wales licensing provisions and by doing so may have posed a "danger to other drivers".
"There is a need to ensure persons on the road are driving correctly," he said of the men, both from Guildford in western Sydney.
"Statutory declarations are sworn in front of justices of the peace. They ought to be taken seriously, people ought to be able to rely on them.
"To my mind what they have done has attacked the very heart of the administration of justice."