A court has allowed alleged fraudster and former federal MP Craig Thomson to travel to India as he awaits trial over multi-million-dollar migration fraud.
Thomson, 59, faces dozens of charges after being accused of being the primary facilitator of more than 130 fraudulent visa applications over four years, yielding more than $2 million in profit.
He is due to be sentenced for a separate fraud matter in February.
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But the Sydney District Court today tweaked the former Labor MP’s bail conditions so he could travel to India for a week from January 13 for business.
Since leaving politics in disgrace in 2013, Thomson has spent “a number” of years involved with a fruit-importing business, the court was told.
The Commonwealth opposed the bail variation over concern Thomson would not return for his series of court matters.
They include two trials in…
