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Alert issued over ‘industrial-scale misconduct’ in super-switching schemes

The corporate watchdog has taken the unusual step of warning Australians about super promotions amid fears more than $1 billion has been lost in rogue schemes.

  • Sarah Danckert

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Australians lose more than $1 billion in investment scams per year.

CommBank unleashes ‘bot army’ with Aussie accents to trap scammers

Thousands of bots will receive calls from fraudsters, with computer-generated voices mimicking Australian accents and speech patterns wasting scammers’ time.

  • Elias Visontay
Sonja Boric is helping a family member who invested with Lion.

Investors take property group to court in search of missing millions

A group of investors has gone to the Supreme Court seeking to learn more about what has happened to money they invested in a series of syndicates.

  • Sarah Danckert
A talented MMA fighter, Sumaiah Alshakshir is also a former employee of Venture Egg and Bespoke Marketing. She was convicted in 2021 of fraud offences.

Ruckman, MMA fighter and cafe supremo snared in corporate collapse

A financial planning company at the centre of an ASIC probe employed a convicted fraudster and mixed martial arts fighter.

  • Sarah Danckert
Rashid Alshakshir outside of his property in Essendon.

We found the cafe owner at the centre of a $500m ASIC fight

Rashid Alshakshir is alleged to have received large sums of money for leading investors into the now failed Shield Master Fund overseen by Paul Chiodo. He was not happy to see us.

  • Sarah Danckert and Amilia Rosa
Rashid Alshakshir, Paul Chiodo and the Tickled Pink cafe brand.

The cafe owner, the fund manager and the $35 million windfall

Rashid Alshakshir ran successful cafes in Melbourne, a marketing business for a controversial fund manager and superannuation websites until The Age came knocking.

  • Sarah Danckert
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John Khoury (left) and Mohammed ‘Mo’ Abou-Eid feature in a secret report that digs into how ASX-listed company Dubber lost $26.6 million in cash.

‘Cash for the boys’: How underworld figures pulled the strings at ASX-listed company

Earlier this year, technology group Dubber found $26.6 million of its cash reserves was missing. Text messages and a ledger of a gangland lawyer’s trust account allege the money was paid out to an array of colourful characters.

  • Sarah Danckert and Carla Jaeger
Daniel Kirby, the former director of Berndale Capital Securities, now works at Summit Auto Trading.

Trading house boss still working in the industry despite guilty plea to criminal charges

Daniel Kirby admitted to offences relating to the collapse of a notorious trading house, but is legally allowed to keep working after the corporate watchdog decided not to ban him.

  • Sarah Danckert
Bill Papas left a mud mad for his fraud scheme.

The mud map and escape plan that upended a $500 million fraud

When businessman Bill Papas fled to Greece, he left behind smoking-gun evidence of his elaborate scheme to defraud bank lenders – and a note that sank his business partner.

  • Sarah Danckert
Financial planner Bradley Grimm has been jailed.

‘Grimm Reaper of Melbourne stockbroking’ jailed for losing victims’ life savings

Bradley Grimm will serve at least nine months behind bars for dishonestly transferring his vulnerable client’s retirement money into the bank accounts of private companies he owned.

  • Sarah Danckert and Erin Pearson

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