A woman claiming to be a fortune-teller and feng shui master has been arrested and charged with facilitating $70 million worth of fraud for what is alleged to be one of the biggest financial crime syndicates in Australian history.

Police allege 53-year-old Anya Phan, who was on Wednesday morning arrested at her $13 million Dover Heights mansion alongside her 25-year-old daughter, Thi Ta, used her position within the Vietnamese community to recruit mules for the so-called Penthouse Syndicate.

A months-long Herald investigation into the syndicate has uncovered allegations the group defrauded the National Australia Bank of more than $150 million in the past two years, and used the tainted funds to build a property empire across Sydney with the help of the allegedly corrupt bank employee

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