In the last four years, Australians have reported more than $4.45 billion in losses from cyber-enabled fraud. In 2024 alone, Australians lost $945 million to investment scams.
The students were allegedly forced into farm labour across Queensland to repay fake debts, with the woman pocketing their wages in breach of visa conditions.
Tawhedi and his co-conspirator, Abdullah Haji Zada, 18, attempted to purchase two AK-47s, 500 rounds of ammunition, and 10 magazines between June and October 2024.
The report centres on the Rotherham grooming gang scandal, where around 1,400 girls were abused between the 1980s and 2013 by predominantly British-Pakistani men.
Zita was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison after a jury found her guilty of injuring her eight-week-old daughter in Auckland in November 2018.