This Month
- Investigation
- Mining
The $45m MinRes property deal – with the Ellisons on the other side
Investors in the iron ore and lithium miner would have had no idea that MinRes’ joint venture partner in a big Perth real estate play was the company’s founder.
- Neil Chenoweth and Mark Di Stefano
ASIC expands probe into ANZ’s alleged bond market manipulation
The top corporate regulator has told a parliamentary joint committee the investigation is of the “highest priority” and will include the misreporting of data.
- Jonathan Shapiro
October
- Investigation
- Billionaires
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.
- Max Mason, Kate McClymont and Nick McKenzie
- Updated
- Billionaires
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.
- Max Mason, Kate McClymont and Nick McKenzie
- Investigation
- Billionaires
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.
- Updated
- Kate McClymont, Max Mason and Nick McKenzie
- Investigation
- Governance
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.
- Nick McKenzie, Max Mason and Kate McClymont
- Exclusive
- Wisetech Global
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.
- Max Mason, Kate McClymont, Tess Bennett and Anne Hyland
- Exclusive
- Billionaires
‘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.
- Nick McKenzie, Max Mason and Kate McClymont
- Exclusive
- ANZ Bank
ASIC raids four properties in ANZ bond manipulation probe
The move was part of efforts to gather evidence as the regulator investigates the bank over allegations it improperly profited from a $14 billion bond sale.
- Jonathan Shapiro
September
- Investigation
- Insolvency
The Beverly Hills wannabes and the betrayal of Ballarat
The collapse of a small-town gold mine has revealed how millions of dollars flowed to a network of Chinese businessmen. Now liquidators want the money back.
- Peter Ker
- Investigation
- Building Bad
‘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.
- Updated
- Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman and Kate McClymont
- Opinion
- Big four
What scandal? Elliott doubles down on minimising bond trading fallout
Shayne Elliott is steadfast in his position that ANZ hasn’t done all that much wrong. It’s a familiar stance, but this time he better be right.
- Jonathan Shapiro
August
The PwC players, the blowback and why it could all happen again
Many current and former PwC partners still don’t believe the tax leaks scandals involved any serious wrongdoing, and regulators can’t be sure there will not be a repeat.
- Edmund Tadros
- Exclusive
- Building Bad
The union boss and the building executive
Multiplex executive Amy Pitchford is in a relationship with a CFMEU official being investigated by police, while also advising the Victorian government on industry issues.
- Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman and Ben Schneiders
- Investigation
- PwC tax scandal
‘We couldn’t believe it’: Insiders reveal how PwC unravelled as scandal broke
The inside story of how PwC transformed from dull accountant into a sales-driven firm that would tear itself apart.
- Edmund Tadros
- Investigation
- Building Bad
‘Flying blind’: Union watchdog hits roadblocks over CFMEU
The Fair Work Commission cannot get the evidence it needs to put the CFMEU into administration because it is not allowed to access critical police information.
- Nick McKenzie and David Marin-Guzman
July
Domacom fund suspended from accepting new money after NDIS closures
Property investment platform Domacom has been blocked from raising new funds following a Financial Review probe into aggressively marketed NDIS investments.
- Updated
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Investigation
- Cyprus Confidential
Importers got rich on COVID masks; the shipment’s still on the dock
When COVID-19 erupted around the world, the race was on to secure masks and gowns. Middlemen were in lucrative taxpayer deals, even one which went awry.
- Liam Walsh and Neil Chenoweth
- Opinion
- US election
Resigned Biden clings to the second term he ‘merited’ but was denied
The US president’s resignation speech was delivered by a hollowed-out career politician who appeared defeated by everyone except his family and closest of aides.
- Matthew Cranston
Building bad: Inside the CFMEU investigation
This week on The Fin podcast, David Marin-Guzman on his nine-month investigation into the CFMEU, why the response shocked insiders and whether there might be lasting change.