Lauren Cranston jailed for eight years for her role in major tax fraud scheme | ABC News

Lauren Cranston, the daughter of a former deputy commissioner of the Australian Taxation Office, has been sentenced to a maximum of eight years in prison for her role in a $105 million tax fraud conspiracy.
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Along with four others including her brother Adam, last month Cranston was found guilty of two charges over a scheme that ran for about three years to 2017.
A long-running Supreme Court trial heard the conspirators ripped off the federal government by keeping millions in GST and Pay As You Go (PAYG) tax through a complex web of second-tier companies.
A legitimate company, Plutus Payroll, appeared "squeaky clean" and tax compliant but money was siphoned off through the lower-level companies with dummy directors, a jury was told.
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