The director of a Muslim school in Perth has been found guilty of falsifying student numbers to fraudulently obtain state and federal government grants.


Anwar Sayed was remanded in custody on Thursday after a jury in the District Court found him guilty on two counts of fraud, having deliberated for nearly four hours.

The 50-year-old had been accused of falsifying student numbers at the Muslim Ladies College of Australia in Kenwick, in Perth's south to obtain a portion of government grants worth $1.125 million.

The school received about $164,000 from the state government and about $961,000 from the federal government.

Sayed, from Canningvale in Perth's south, is the director of Muslim Link Australia, which runs the school.

The court heard that he signed a declaration that in the 2006/07 census year, more than 180 students were enrolled in the school when there were 80 to 100 fewer than that.

On Thursday, Sayed's friends and family in the court appeared visibly upset at the conviction while he remained calm as the verdict was delivered.

His lawyer, Andrew Skerritt, argued he was not a flight risk, but Judge Shauna Deane said imprisonment was 'very much on the cards' for Sayed because the offence was a 'serious' matter and she could not grant him bail.

He is due to be sentenced on November 30.

Outside court, Sayed's solicitor Swaran Ludher said he was surprised by the verdict because the defence was strong.

'The way the prosecution, the police, went about their investigations, clearly there are many areas they forgot to tackle,' he said.

'They never contacted the so-called phantom students, so how can you say that a roll is falsified and has got phantom names on it unless you contact the so-called phantom students?'

Mr Ludher said his client's livelihood had been destroyed by the conviction.

'It's ruined his college, it's ruined his school. He will not be able to open another school now, so what is he left with?' he said.

Sayed's trial came to prominence when one of the witnesses asked the court if she could wear a niqab, or full burqa, while giving evidence.

Judge Shauna Deane ruled that the woman had to remove her niqab but said she could give evidence via video link and ordered men leave the court room while the woman gave her evidence.


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Sensitive subject  pansi?

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There's always plenty being said about Christian etc schools when they stuff up, are you implying it's  anti-muslim 'discriminatory' to address when this sort of thing happens in the Muslim school sector?

As you have demonstrated, as soon as something is said on the subject of Muslims behaving badly in the media, you lot scream discrimination.

Tough luck!

You wanted equality,*choke*  then equality you shall have.



Suck it up tea-towel head.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Oct 29^th, 2010 at 9:33am:



WEll, he may well have been on Mr Sayed's list of enrolled students when the bill was sent to the Gov.... We all probably were, by the looks of it.

<<HOW do you contact PHANTOMS  >>
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The same way we converse with the figments of some ones imagination on this forum. One person can morph into twenty or thirty at the click of a keyboard. Just ask mellie et al.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Oct 29^th, 2010 at 9:33am:


mellie/macca would be lucky to be six MONTHS old......Mentally!!

Although I'm pro-moslem on a lot of things,
I do think Mellie's Post is justified.
Everyone else does it and some get busted, Moslem's shouldn't be exempt by some stupid 'discrimination' angle.

Tea-Towel Head.
...right up there with the Aussie "bottle-cork Hat"