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A former director of failed Perth mining company Continental Coal has been jailed for more than three and a half years after pleading guilty to multiple crimes, including stealing $2.2 million and forging a bank statement.
The receivers of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick's estate have reached an agreement with her husband on a small pool of remaining assets in dispute that will see half of her teenaged son's sneaker collection sold to repay defrauded investors.
The former managing director of property developer Ralan Group could face up to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to six fraud offences over loans the defunct corporate group took out to fund several projects in Sydney.
Charges have been laid against two financial services companies associated with investment promoter David Henty Sutton, who was slapped with a lifetime ban by the corporate regulator this year.
The former CEO of collapsed Sydney stockbroking firm BBY Limited has been charged with two counts of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring fraud.
Direct bank Members Equity has pleaded guilty to criminal charges over misleading representations to customers, but a judge has questioned the bank’s submissions in favour of a low penalty, noting it was only “happenstance” that a systems glitch didn’t lead to worse outcomes for customers.
The receivers of Melissa Caddick’s estate have reached an in-principle agreement with the Sydney frauster's husband and son in relation to the division of a small number of remaining assets.
NAB will fight a bid by a $78 million class action over the collapse of Walton Construction to add serious fraud allegations in the four-year-old case, which a judge said has been “mired in a procedural mess”.
A man has been charged with trading in inside information in advance of Westfarmers' $776 million acquisition of lithium company Kidman Resources in 2019.
Pitcher Partners has lost its appeal of a decision that refused to stay a lawsuit over the accounting firm’s alleged involvement in race car driver Max Twigg’s misappropriation of $127 million from his family.