A woman fined $120,000 for fabricating 11 bogus qualifications in aged and disability care used them to trick the training regulator into setting up her own private training college. Sydney woman Synthia Restar revealed yesterday that she is now running a “nursing agency”, MPJEL Care, despite losing registration for her other college, MPJEL Oceania, in February. The Federal Court has fined Ms Restar $120,000 and ordered her to pay the legal costs of the Australian Skills Quality Authority, which discovered her scam after a colleague dobbed her in for giving him two fake training certificates for $2000. In a June 3 judgment published yesterday, judge Geoffrey Flick said Ms Restar had co-operated with ASQA, expressed remorse and “wishes to continue to engage in the industry’’.
