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Muhammad Cheema (centre) was the money man for a fraud syndicate, his lawyer Nick Hanna (left) had his charges reduced after Campsie detective Lance Colyer (right) captured the fraudster and dismantled the criminal group.
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Money man caught after syndicate flew ‘mules’ into Sydney to build $1m fraud web

Fake bank accounts created by the mules were used to siphon money conned from Australians out of the country – until detectives nabbed central player Muhammad Abdullah Cheema.

  • by Perry Duffin

Healthcare

Stephen Laureys
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Healthcare

‘Disorders of consciousness’: The million-dollar question and the mysteries of coma

An ‘acute brain failure’ jettisons a patient, their doctors and families into an anxious twilight zone. How aware is a person in a coma? And how are decisions made in the face of uncertainty?

  • by Jackson Graham
Steph Seymour was prescribed benzodiazepines and took them as prescribed.

Steph had no idea stopping her antianxiety medication could be deadly

A treatment centre helping those dependent on benzodiazepines such as Xanax and Valium will be forced to cut its clinician numbers from 10 to three when funding runs out.

  • by Amber Schultz
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