A man is due to appear in court next month after allegedly committing several fraud offences totalling over $25,000.

In January 2014, Gunnedah detectives began investigations into several alleged fraud offences involving the misappropriation of donations made to the State Emergency Service (SES) unit at Barraba, about 90km northwest of Tamworth.

Police will allege a number of donations made to the unit were obtained by the local controller and used for private purposes.

Yesterday (Wednesday 8 February 2015), a 63-year-old man was served with a future service court attendance notice in relation to this matter.

He was charged with the following offences:

– Obtain money etc by deception (x4);

– Make false statement to obtain money (x4);

– Publish etc false misleading material to obtain advantage (x29);

– Dishonestly obtain financial advantage etc by deception (x29).

He is due to appear before Tamworth Local Court on Monday 25 May 2015.

The controller is currently suspended from duties with the SES.