The cost to the Victorian economy, according to internal government documents obtained by The Saturday Age under FOI, is conservatively estimated to be $200 million. The federal Attorney-General's office estimates that identity fraud costs the country well over $4 billion a year. When charging him with deception, Victoria Police had no idea of the man's history with Immigration or of his previous use of fake passports and identities. The case of the Albanian underscores fundamental failings in the national system of border protection - and a troubling lack of communications between government agencies including Immigration, the AFP and state police. It later emerged that he had been apprehended by Immigration several years earlier, attempting to enter Australia on a fake Greek passport, and had escaped from the Maribyrnong immigration detention centre.
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