Olympic swimming champion wanted on ‘fraud’
FORMER Olympian Neil Brooks is wanted for questioning over an alleged $1.95 million fraud.
Police have confirmed a warrant was issued for the champion swimmer over an al- leged fraud perpetrated by a sports clothing company.
Brooks’s wife Linda was arrested after flying into Perth airport from Bali on Friday and has been charged with one count of serious fraud.
Queensland police confirmed yesterday that detectives from the state’s Financial and Cyber Crime Group “attended the Perth Magistrates Court yesterday to apply for the extradition of a woman in relation to an alleged $1.95 million fraud offence in 2008”.
“It will be alleged the woman was a director of a sports clothing manufacturing company who, along with other directors, made dishonest representations about the success of the business in order to induce a victim to purchase a 50 percent share of the company.”
A Perth magistrate “ordered the 45-year-old Southport woman to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on November 13 in relation to one count of fraud”.
Brooks, now 55, won gold in the 4x100m medley relay at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and was a member of the “Mean Machine”.