Assets worth nearly $16 million have been seized by AFP (Australian Federal Police) from a man who is serving seven years in jail over a mammoth fraud on the Commonwealth. Six properties, three vehicles, luxury items like watches, multiple bank accounts, investment accounts and shareholdings worth $15.8m are now in the government’s hands. Simon Anquetil was a co-founder of a payroll services company, Plutus Payroll, which was used to defraud the Commonwealth of more than $105 million over three years. The complex scam involved pay-as-you-go withholding tax and GST fraud. The 38-year-old Liverpool man was one of the main conspirators in the criminal syndicate. He is serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for conspiring to defraud the Commonwealth and dealing with the proceeds of crime. The man in charge of the confiscation of criminal assets at the Australian Federal Police, Stefan Jerga, says the force is working to ensure that criminals don’t …