Glamorous Service NSW worker learns her fate after leaking customers' private details to a mate so he could steal more than $60,000

A erstwhile authorities contractor who leaked the backstage accusation of astatine slightest 85 customers to a friend, who past claimed $60,000 successful fraudulent benefits, has walked escaped from court.

Selina Saab, 25, utilized her presumption arsenic a contractor for Service NSW to bargain the confidential accusation from customers betwixt July and October 2021. 

The authorities worker, from Bankstown successful southwest Sydney then sent the accusation to her friend's boyfriend, Salim Merheb, via Snapchat. 

Merheb past utilized the accusation to lodge fraudulent claims for authorities fiscal alleviation - successful the signifier of flood catastrophe and Covid-19 payments - worthy $61,550.

He was sentenced to 3 years and six months successful jailhouse successful December past twelvemonth aft helium pleaded blameworthy to obtaining fiscal vantage by deception, dealing with proceeds of crime and dealing successful recognition accusation with intent to perpetrate an indictable offence. 

The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed a consequent entreaty connected his behalf.  

Unlike Merheb, Saab was connected Friday issued a two-year intensive corrections bid allowing her to service her condemnation among the community. 

She was seen arriving astatine Parramatta District Court connected Friday wearing a decorator achromatic pantsuit.

A District Court justice accepted Saab displayed genuine remorse for her behaviour and that she had been acting nether Merheb's coercion. 

She was ordered to fulfil a intelligence wellness attraction program and indispensable study to a assemblage corrections serviceman portion completing her sentence.   

Merheb's erstwhile partner, Isabella Sabbouh, pleaded blameworthy to dealing with the proceeds and suspected proceeds of indictable transgression successful October past year. 

Agreed facts stated Sabbouh had received $48,109.67 successful slope deposits from Merheb betwixt April and November 2021. 

This included 22 deposits worthy a full $14,280.07 a information of which, tribunal documents seen by The Daily Telegraph state, came from the mendacious claims for authorities payments filed by Merheb.

Police did not allege Sabbouh had been progressive successful lodging the fraudulent claims.