Khoi Tien Le

Introduction

Khoi Tien Le is a nurse in New South Wales who was disqualified from being registered as a nurse for two years by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal after it found proven a complaint that on 8 May 2024 he was convicted of participating in a criminal group, dealing with property reasonably suspected of being the proceeds of crime, and two offences of possessing an unauthorised firearm — and that he failed to notify Ahpra of the charges and conviction within seven days and made intentionally false and misleading representations to the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW to conceal his convictions. The Health Care Complaints Commission prosecuted the complaint. The Tribunal found him guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct and concluded the convictions rendered him unfit to practise in the public interest.

Background Information

Le was both an enrolled nurse and a registered nurse in New South Wales — dual registration within Australia’s split nursing system. The convictions at the centre of the case, dated 8 May 2024, were serious criminal offences: participation in a criminal group, dealing with property suspected of being proceeds of crime, and two counts of possessing an unauthorised firearm. Beyond the offending itself, the regulatory case turned on concealment — the failure to notify Ahpra, the national regulator, within the mandatory seven-day window, and false representations to the NSW Nursing and Midwifery Council made to hide the convictions from his professional regulator.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Tribunal findings. The findings below are the formal adjudications of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal in a case prosecuted by the Health Care Complaints Commission. The criminal convictions are matters of court record.

It was alleged that on 8 May 2024, Le was convicted of the offences of participating in a criminal group, dealing with property reasonably suspected of being the proceeds of crime, and two offences of possessing an unauthorised firearm. It was further alleged that he failed to notify Ahpra within seven days of being charged with the offences and later convicted of them, and that he made intentionally false and misleading representations to the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW to conceal his criminal convictions. In its decision of 13 August 2025 the Tribunal found the complaint proven, found him guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct, and concluded that he had been convicted of criminal offences rendering him unfit to practise in the public interest. Because he was no longer registered, the Tribunal determined that had he still been registered it would have suspended or cancelled his registration; instead it disqualified him from being registered as a nurse for two years.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The Health Care Complaints Commission published its media release on 4 March 2026. The two-year disqualification bars Le from registering as a nurse anywhere in Australia under the national scheme while it runs; any future application would face the published findings of organised-crime participation, firearms offences, and deliberate concealment from the regulator. The case is one of the Commission’s 2026 run of published outcomes in which criminal convictions outside the workplace — none of them committed against patients — still end careers because the national registration scheme treats serious criminality and dishonesty toward the regulator as fitness questions in themselves.

Current Status

Le is disqualified from registration as a nurse for two years under the Tribunal’s decision of 13 August 2025. The criminal convictions of 8 May 2024 stand on the court record. The sources report no appeal against the Tribunal’s decision and no public response from Le. Whether he seeks re-registration after the disqualification expires, the findings themselves remain permanently part of the published disciplinary record.

Impact on Their Career/Life

A dual-registered nursing career ended not through anything that happened to a patient but through a parallel criminal life — a criminal group, proceeds of crime and unauthorised firearms — and then an attempt to keep all of it from Ahpra and the NSW council that oversees nurses. The Tribunal’s finding of intentionally false and misleading representations made the concealment an independent professional-misconduct ground on top of the convictions. For nurses in NSW the published outcome is a reminder that the seven-day notification duty is enforced, and that concealing charges doubles the regulatory exposure.

Sources

• NSW Health Care Complaints Commission, “Mr Khoi Tien Le – Enrolled Nurse and Registered Nurse – Disqualified for criminal convictions, unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct,” 4 March 2026 — source