Darron Marc Levin, accused of fraud, has appeared in Sydney Local Court for the third time since his August 2026 arrest. Police allege he possesses $2.5 million in jewellery that are proceeds of crime. The Director of Public Prosecutions has not confirmed it will prosecute Darron Marc Levin in the District Court on the 35 charges laid against him. If found guilty, he’ll face substantially less jail time than if he faced the higher court.
Levin was first arrested on August 25, 2026. Since then, two additional fraud charges have been filed, and a third relates to alleged threats made against a woman he met on a dating app, as reported Business Review. The police have stated their brief of evidence will be finalized on November 19. his next court appearance will be on December 3rd, when his defence is required to serve its reply to the police prosecution brief.
This is not Levin’s first encounter with the law for fraud. In 2024, the DPP declined to prosecute him in the District Court on similar charges. He pleaded guilty in the Local Court to defrauding a former employer of over $2 million. He walked out of the Local Court with a 21-month suspended jail sentence. Police now allege he committed further fraud while serving that suspended sentence. If that matter had been heard in the District Court he would have faced a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment.
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The alleged frauds stretch back years. Levin worked in middle management at two of Amler’s Sydney stores. The two men formed a business relationship after Levin claimed he could source products directly from Chinese factories at a lower cost.
In June 2011, they traveled to China together to visit factories and place orders. According to Amler, the venture was profitable. Plans for a second shipment were made, but Levin convinced Amler to let him travel to China alone to arrange it. The containers of goods were due in September but never arrived.
The total retail value of the allegedly stolen goods was $1 million. Amler states the incident destroyed his business’s cashflow during a critical period, forcing him into bankruptcy. He says it cost him everything financially and emotionally. Amler also claims Levin once stole $100,000 from a lottery-winning colleague at their previous employer, which he believes led to Levin’s termination. Scentre Group, the owner of the shopping centers, confirmed Levin was once an employee but declined to comment on the alleged theft.
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Alleged Fraud and Legal Proceedings
The matter remains before the Local Court. If he was to be convicted in the District Court he would face a total of 25 years imprisonment for his current fraud related charges, if convicted in the Local Court the maximum is six years.
Background and Impact
Levin’s alleged fraudulent activities have significant financial consequences. The NMBE director estimates the total fraud may have been over $4 million, though only a portion has been pursued. The company’s investigation identified fraud totalling more than $2 million, including payments from builders and funds from departing tenants. Letters with fraudulent bank details believed to be controlled by Levin were also found. Missing in Action was deregistered in July 2014, three months after he launched the most audacious of his criminal enterprises.
The consequences of the legal process were reportedly disastrous. One alleged victim says Levin passed a bad cheque for $90,000 after receiving his suspended sentence. Save for maintaining his own name, in April 2014 Levin engineered a dark scheme built on a fictitious personal and professional persona, preying on the trust of a family-owned business whose principals soon treated him as one of their own. His employment was terminated in 2021 and an investigation commenced. “We are confident that the identifiable loss was approximately $2.1 million,” says the NMBE director.
