Cancer fraud Belle Gibson spotted on school run despite not paying back $410k in fines
Cancer fraud Belle Gibson has stepped out months after “locking herself away” after being ordered to explain why she hasn’t paid off her $410,000 in fines.
Gibson was fined $410,000 for defrauding hard-working Aussies by pretending she cured cancer through healthy living. She was found guilty of five breaches of consumer laws.
However, despite the warning and the substantial amount of fines to pay off, Gibson remains a free person in the community and dropped off her child at school.
Gibson quickly became annoyed when she realised a photographer was taking her photo and indignantly raised her mobile phone to take pictures of the photographer.
She quickly made headlines after falsely claiming she had brain cancer and healed herself with natural remedies, giving those who legitimately suffered from cancer new hope for finding a cure for their disease.
She lied to well meaning consumers who supported her Whole Pantry app as well as book sales as she said she would donate money to various charities as well as a boy with inoperable brain cancer, but never ended up donating the money.
Gibson received $440,500 from sales from her book and her app, but only donated around $10,000 to charity.
What angers people more is that despite claiming that she has no money to pay off the funds, she has been seen going on holidays to Bali and Africa and has spent $90,000 over two years.
Cameron Miller, who runs the Shaun Miller foundation said that the damage Gibson has done is “wrong”.
“I just think it's disgusting that she's taken advantage of these people,” he said to The Daily Mail.
“She's out there parading like she's Lady Muck. I just think it's wrong.”
Miller also said that she was giving a bad name to reputable charities.
“When you have people like this it makes it hard for other foundations to convince people to donate money when you've got shonks out there,” he said.
“I just can't get over it ... she's laughing at all these people. She should have been prosecuted (by police). She's a fraudster. She is a con-woman and she should have been prosecuted to the whole letter of the law but she just thinks it's funny.”
While Gibson was grilled in the Federal Court earlier this year over why she hasn’t paid the fines, she claimed she was “not in a position to pay a $410,000 fine at this time”.