05 May 2021 17:53 GMT
Jumio, the leading provider of AI-powered end-to-end identity verification and eKYC solutions, has announced a new business partnership with longtime customer National Crime Check (NCC) as the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) accredited agency continues to scale its InstaID identity verification system.
National Crime Check has been helping clients perform compliant and technologically driven ACIC police checks and employment screening services since 2009. NCC has been a Jumio customer since 2014, the same year it launched InstaID, which enables Australian businesses and organizations to quickly and securely validate the identities of their vendors, customers and tenants.
With this new partnership agreement, NCC expands its offerings to now provide real-time identity checks with access to the Australian Government’s Document Verification Service (DVS) within the InstaID system. With InstaID, businesses can shorten their customer onboar
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Two more Australians arrested in connection to international $301m MDMA bust
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Police charge two after ‘ice’ valued at nearly $87 million seized during joint-agency operation
Two men have been charged and nearly $87 million worth of ‘ice’ seized, following a joint-agency investigation into the importation and supply of illicit drugs.
Strike Force Kurrurma was established by detectives attached to the State Crime Command’s Organised Crime Squad and Australian Federal Police (AFP), together with the NSW Crime Commission (NSWCC) and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), to investigate the large-scale importation and supply of prohibited drugs – mainly methylamphetamine (ice) – into and across NSW.
Acting on intelligence information, Organised Crime Squad detectives arrested a 40-year-old Woy Woy man during a vehicle stop at Kingswood about 3.20pm yesterday (Thursday 29 April 2021).
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Sydney man sentenced for selling online subscriptions using stolen credentials in international investigation
A 23-year-old Sydney man was yesterday handed a two years and two months’ sentence, to be served by way of an intensive corrections order, for his involvement as the creator, administrator and primary financial beneficiary of a number of online subscription services which relied on stolen credentials from Australians and others around the world.
The man, who has also been ordered by the court to serve 200 hours of community service, was arrested in 2019 following international cybercrime investigations by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
This is a joint release between Australian Federal Police and Australian Taxation Office
A 65-year-old man who allegedly avoided paying more than $2.57 million in tax-related liabilities and impersonated an Australian Taxation Office employee is expected to face Perth Magistrate’s Court today (23 April 2021).
The Perth man has been charged with four offences over allegations he dishonestly failed to declare $7 million income from a royalty payment to a company he controlled, which police allege was done to avoid paying a GST liability and associated income tax.
The charges are the result of an extensive joint operation by the ATO-led Serious Financial Crime Taskforce (SFCT), involving the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Taxation Office (ATO).