Fraudster Caddick’s death may make it easier to recover stolen funds

Finbar O'Mallon and Michael Pelly

Updated Feb 26, 2021 – 12.21pm, first published at 11.06am

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Lawyers believe the death of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick may make it easier to recover funds for the investors she conned out of millions of dollars.

Ms Caddick’s decomposed remains were found on a NSW south coast beach last weekend, three months after she vanished following a police raid on her home.

Finbar O'Mallon is a reporter for The Australian Financial Review.

Michael Pelly is the legal editor, based in our Sydney newsroom. He has been a senior adviser to federal and state attorneys-general and written two books, one a biography of former High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson.