Married At First Sight groom Dan Webb is set to face a Brisbane court over alleged $24million scam
Dan Webb is set to front court in Brisbane over an alleged multi-million dollar telemarketing scam.
According to a report by AAP on Friday, as re-reported by Yahoo! Lifestyle, the 36-year-old former Married At First Sight star will stand trial with four others.
The alleged scam raked in around $24million from hundreds of people between 2013 and 2014.
Married At First Sight groom Dan Webb (pictured) is set to face a Brisbane court over an alleged scam that raked in $24million
Dan was committed in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday after it was alleged the scammers were running a call centre, known as a ‘boiler room’ by police.
He’s been charged with dishonestly gaining benefit to a value of over $30,000, and will stand trial in front of the Brisbane District Court.
No trial date has been set as yet.
According to a report by AAP on Friday, as re-reported by Yahoo! Lifestyle, the 36-year-old former Married At First Sight star will stand trial with four others
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Dan for comment.
The alleged scam involved people cold calling people and pressuring them to invest money in products that didn’t exist.
‘In fact the monies were not so invested, and monies were dispersed to a number of the defendants within the operation,’ Magistrate Belinda Merrin said of the case.
The alleged scam raked in around $24million between 2013 and 2014
Police alleged that companies would disappear, only to be rebranded and replaced to ensure the continuation of the scam.
‘The court was told of instances of “dummy” directors, the use of false names by staff, the shredding of “mountains” of paperwork and the withdrawal of cash before a business was shut down,’ read the report.
A committal hearing took place in February, during which the court heard that the people in charge of the operation hid behind associates used as signatories.
He’s been charged with dishonestly gaining benefit to a value of over $30,000, and will stand trial in front of the Brisbane District Court. Pictured on Married At First Sight in 2019
Money was then deposited into bank accounts before being withdrawn and transferred elsewhere.
Dan appeared on the 2019 season of Married At First Sight.
He was famously embroiled in an affair with fellow participant Jessika Power, despite both being paired with other people.
Dan was committed in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday after it was alleged the scammers were running a call centre, known as a ‘boiler room’ by police