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ASIC has spent $3.2 million so far pursuing billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer in two criminal lawsuits alleging takeover contraventions and fraud.
Former BlueScope general manager of sales and marketing Jason Ellis has been sentenced to a wholly suspended prison term of eight months after pleading guilty to obstructing a price fixing investigation.
The Federal Court judge who is now overseeing a high stakes criminal cartel case against several investment banks and individuals over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement has ordered that an indictment be filed by February 1, telling the parties "we have to get this case moving" and that he hoped to move the matter to trial "before we all retire".
A former executive of a unit of Leighton Holdings has been arrested and charged with foreign bribery offences following a 9 year-investigation by the AFP into $106 million in bribes allegedly steered to Iraqi officials to win lucrative oil projects.
A 65-year-old Melbourne man has become the first person in Australia to be charged with a foreign interference offence since new national security legislation was passed in 2018.
A former Macquarie Bank financial adviser previously banned for life from providing financial services has been hit with criminal charges.
The Federal Government has committed $147 million to develop a new watchdog tasked with investigating criminal conduct in the public sector, giving the agency more power than a Royal Commission.
A former general manager of Sigma Healthcare is facing up to twenty years in prison after being charged with two counts of insider trading.
A judge has given the greenlight to AUSTRAC's $1.3 billion penalty against Westpac over the bank's 23 million breaches of money laundering and counter-terrorism laws, the biggest regulatory fine ever paid by an Australian company.
The Australian unit of French investment bank Société Générale must pay a $30,000 penalty after pleading guilty to four counts of breaching client money handling rules.