An Auckland man who fraudulently received $13,600 in Covid-19 relief has been jailed for 20 months.
Jason Laurence Gray made two applications for loans, seeking $27,000, under the Small Business Cashflow Loan (SBCL) scheme despite knowing a business he was part of didn’t meet loan criteria.
The applications were made within a week of each other in June 2020.
The scheme, implemented under urgency in May 2020, used a “high trust” application model so small businesses could access funds quickly during the pandemic.
Gray checked nearly 40 times how the first application was progressing, Inland Revenue said.
