A Thief Lives in Your Area

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Tony Gallo and Swapnil Chaure once worked side by side in the same company. The trouble began when Swapnil left the company. Before leaving, he registered the domain name “10X Bollards,” which belongs to the original company he left, and used to launch his own competing business.

Tony stayed inside the original company, working in the sales department. His position gave him access to quotes, customer details, project enquiries, pricing, and payment information. Instead of protecting that information, he secretly passed it to Swapnil.

With Tony feeding him inside information, Swapnil was able to target the same clients, compete for the same jobs, and gain an unfair advantage over his former employer. In return, Tony was allegedly receiving payments from Swapnil.

At first, the company only noticed strange patterns. Jobs were being lost. Clients were being approached by competitors who seemed to know too much. Prices were being undercut with suspicious accuracy. Something was wrong, but no one yet knew.

Then the first investigation exposed Tony.

The company discovered that Tony had not only been leaking quotes and client information, but had also been stealing money directly. As a sales employee, he was responsible for sending quotes and payment details to clients. He allegedly used that role to replace the company’s bank account details with his own personal account details. He made fake transactions in Xero to make other employees believe that the payment came to the company account. Clients believed they were paying the company, but the money was being diverted into Tony’s account.

Once this was uncovered, Tony was dismissed, and the company reported the matter to the police.

But the story did not end there.

A further investigation revealed that before leaving, Tony had somehow accessed the company’s internal system and obtained details of the company’s American Express card. Those card details were allegedly passed to Swapnil, who used them to pay for Google Ads promoting his own products and rival businesses.

Piece by piece, the company uncovered the full scale of the scheme. Tony was the insider. Swapnil was the outside operator. Together, they allegedly stole confidential business information, diverted client payments, misused company credit card details, and caused thousands of dollars in losses.

Now, with police investigating bank transfers, system logins, email records, client communications, and advertising payments.