@freakiness wrote:
@silverfaun wrote:
Paywalled??? No its not, I just read it and I don't subscribe to the Telegraph.
Both links I tried. Both take me to the paywall.
I can read it OK
A MAN who claims his house started weeping oil and ash following the death of his teenage son has been charged with credit card fraud.
Police yesterday arrested 57-year-old George Tannous after a three-year investigation into an alleged credit fraud scam operating in Sydney's west.
The investigation was launched after a major bank became concerned by fraudulent applications for credit.
Police allege Mr Tannous was completing credit card application forms with fraudulent and misleading documentation on behalf of third parties without the knowledge of financial institutions.
The unemployed financer was arrested after police searched his Bowden St, Guildford West home.
It is the same "miracle house" where hundreds of people flock every week after it was claimed the home weeps oil and ash.
Mr Tannous and his wife Lina said they believed it was a sign from their dead son, Mike, who was kil...
Police said today they are not investigating the couple over the authenticity of those claims.
Mr Tannous was taken to Merrylands Police Station for questioning and was late yesterday charged with six counts of obtaining money by false or misleading statements, and one count of obtaining benefit by deception.
He was granted conditional bail and ordered to appear before Fairfield Local Court on Wednesday 17 February 2010.
