“As a policy-maker from a recipient country I will not be grieving the death of USAID”, said Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of the Indian Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.
Criminals used foreign student identities to buy GST-exempt bullion, which they then melted down and sold as “scrap” gold via shell companies, claiming GST refunds fraudulently.
The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research said in its latest quarterly update that “steal from retail store” rose 9.3 per cent in the two years to December 2025
