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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent

Belle Gibson: Victorian authorities ‘won’t let up’ on pursuit of cancer con artist’s unpaid $410,000 fine

Belle Gibson outside court in Melbourne.
Cancer con artist Belle Gibson failed to pay a $410,000 fine for five breaches of consumer law. The Victorian government is still pursuing the money. Photograph: David Crosling/AAP

The Victorian premier says the state’s consumer watchdog is “constantly” pursuing cancer conwoman Belle Gibson and “won’t let up” until she pays the fine she was ordered to pay more than seven years ago.

Gibson, who is the now the subject of a new Netflix series, Apple Cider Vinegar, was in 2017 ordered by the federal court to pay a $410,000 fine plus $30,000 in legal costs for misleading and deceptive conduct, after she falsely claimed to have been diagnosed with brain cancer and cured through alternative therapies and nutrition.

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