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Kate McClymont

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Zena Nasser is now a director and shareholder of Richard White’s personal investment vehicle.

WiseTech founder restructures assets to give wife a share

Richard White’s corporate restructure puts Zena Nasser in the driving seat of one of his private investment vehicles.

November

Richard White was recently listed as Australia’s 11th richest man.

WiseTech awarded equipment contract to White’s lover

The WiseTech board is investigating a series of transactions between the technology company and a former lover of founder Richard White.

Richard White married Zena Nasser earlier this year.

The tech billionaire, his wife, her ex-husband and a big property deal

WiseTech Global founder Richard White has invested in many ventures, but a disused industrial site is one of the more surprising. It could be a lucrative one.

October

Richard White’s personal life spilled into the open after his now wife, Zena Nasser (right) found out about his lover, Linda Rogan.

How Richard White’s humble tech nerd image came undone

Why he clung on to his job at the top of WiseTech despite an $11 billion fortune as his personal life disintegrated is a question only he can answer.

Richard White, WiseTech Global’s founder, with chairman Richard Dammery.

WiseTech chief executive Richard White quits amid scandal

The billionaire businessman will return as a full-time consultant on the same salary he enjoyed as chief executive of the company he founded three decades ago.

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Billionaire Richard White and his former partner Christine Kontos.

Richard White gave $7m mansion to female WiseTech employee

But the billionaire businessman, who is the software firm’s chief executive, said he had disclosed the relationship before she started at the company.

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Richard White, WiseTech Global’s founder and chief executive, and Christine Holman, who was briefly a director of the company.

WiseTech director’s scathing assessment of ‘bully’ Richard White

Christine Holman accused the software giant’s chief executive of intimidation, bullying and overseeing poor corporate governance as she quit in 2019.

Richard White in August. The billionaire has built WiseTech Global into a software giant, but has recently been selling shares.

Billionaire Richard White’s WiseTech share sales to pay ex-wife

The businessman has previously said he was selling down his stake in the software giant he founded because investors were demanding shares be made available.

Richard White is the founder of WiseTech. His board has included Andrew Harrison (left), Maree Isaacs, Charles Gibbon and Richard Dammery, who is the current chairman.

‘LinkedIn Lecher’: WiseTech board to probe payments to CEO’s ex-lover

An investigation also reveals the businessman approached female entrepreneurs with offers of professional help that shifted into crude or suggestive language.

September

George Alex outside the NSW Supreme Court at Darlinghurst during jury deliberations in his tax fraud trial.

‘I love a cunning plan’: A crime boss, the CFMEU and tax-dodging deals

Secret police recordings of more than 1000 calls made from prison helped unravel George Alex’s sprawling and corrupt labour hire empire.

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August

Christopher Cassaniti (centre) celebrating his 18th birthday with his family.

Financial failure, missed taxes and deadly history no barrier to CFMEU promotion

Industry insiders claim a scaffolding firm with a chequered past and links to organised crime was still able to secure promotion at the highest levels of the CFMEU.

July

This firm is on police’s radar, but still thriving thanks to CFMEU

A company run by brothers known to the authorities and championed by the union has ballooned into one of NSW’s biggest labour hire operations.

May 2021

Macquarie Group has experienced a dramatic reduction in actionable mis(conduct). All it took was a global pandemic.

Nuix turmoil throws spotlight on Macquarie

Fresh details have emerged of the bank’s role in the tech company’s IPO, amid a witch-hunt to find the source of internal leaks.

 Eddie Sheehy: “So, the big question for all shareholders is, where is Nuix going to find the funds to pay me? And, if it can’t find the funds, what happens next?”

Ex-CEO: Where is Nuix going to find the money?

The technology giant has ditched half its defence in a damages claim by co-founder Eddie Sheehy that has ballooned to $200 million.

Dr Tony Castagna: His $80 million options payout cost $3000 to exercise.

How a consultant turned $3000 into $80 million

Nuix documents show a mystery six-year gap in the recording of Anthony Castagna’s options package, which he cashed out for millions.

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Nuix chief executive Rod Vawdrey at the company’s ASX listing in December.

‘Slow the bleeding’: Nuix review flashed red weeks after listing

As the company’s shares peaked in January, an internal report was sounding the alarm that its products were in trouble.

Tony Castagna arrives at Nuix headquarters in Sydney late last month.

The infighting behind the $2.7b Nuix meltdown

It was last year’s hottest float, before missed forecasts sent its stock into a rapid plunge. But the company’s chequered history serves as a reality check.

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