The Snitch: Criniti’s heads to the Supreme Court for multiple legal cases

Popular pizza restaurant chain Criniti’s has faced high-profile legal troubles with bikies, luxury car deals and liquidators in the past, now the eatery is set to face more court dramas.

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The ever-expanding pizza restaurant chain Criniti’s has faced high-profile legal troubles with bikies, luxury car deals and liquidators.

Now the eatery is set to face more court dramas, with at least four new legal actions being levelled against it in the NSW Supreme Court.

A Rolls-Royce and driver once delivered VIP guests to and from Criniti’s.

Details are yet to be revealed in court as to the nature of the disputes, but the yet-to-be-publicly named parties have taken action against the Criniti’s outlets at Manly, Wollongong and Chermside.

Since opening at Parramatta in 2003, the Criniti’s chain of Italian eateries has expanded to 13, including the celebrity favourite on Woolloomooloo Wharf.

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At one point, VIP diners could even be chauffeured by the restaurant’s Rolls-Royce, which once featured on the TV show Celebrity Apprentice.

In 2017 the restaurant chain was at the centre of another Supreme Court battle in which investors claimed they were dudded out of ownership.

During that case, owner Frank Criniti submitted in documents filed with the court that he was threatened by a Comanchero bikie gang associate who said “he could pay someone $5000 to shoot one of the restaurants”.

The latest round of cases are listed to land in court next month.

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NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller’s ban on cops having affairs with other cops is facing a new test.

Albury Senior Constable Erin Fry (right).

Albury Senior Constable Erin Fry was charged with distributing revenge porn this week after her attempts to right a wrong, went south.

Police will allege in court, Fry, 31, received a phone call from the wife of a superior officer earlier this year.

The wife confronted Fry with a series of allegations, including that the superior and Fry had been involved romantically.

The police case goes that the pair agreed to meet up the next day.

During the meeting, Fry allegedly showed the wife an intimate photograph involving the superior officer.

It will be alleged that the senior officer claimed he didn’t provide consent for the image to be distributed, which amounted to a revenge porn offence under the Crimes Act.

The offence was introduced in 2017 to prevent scorned ex-partners getting one-up.

Fry is due to face court on September 10.

It is understood the senior officer is working at another station.

POT OF GOLD

Just in case an accessory after the fact to murder charge against a Sydney property developer wasn’t enough, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is going after his pot of gold, too.

Brayden Dillon was shot in his bed.

Mohamad Abu-Mahmoud has been in jail since last year after he and his brother — Abdul Abu-Mahmoud — were accused with covering up a teenager’s murder.

Abdul is accused of ordering the shooting of 15-year-old Brayden Dillon in 2017, while Mohamad is accused of organising falsified affidavits in the aftermath.

The charges have caught the attention of the ATO, which has started action against Mohamad in the NSW Supreme Court for an outstanding tax debt.

According to the orders, the ATO has its eyes on 16 one kilogram gold bullion bars, three Cartier bracelets and $50,000 in cash.

NSW Police seized the lucrative loot during a search warrant in October last year.

The court ordered that Wilson Security hold on to the assets until further orders are made.

ALL IN A DAY’S WORK

THERE’S an old saying that some cops do turn a blind eye to certain crimes because it creates too much paperwork. Not so for Detective Senior Constable Maxwell Kral.

He followed through and charged a Western Sydney man following the execution of a search warrant at Springfield Pl, Airds, and tendered the paperwork — in this case a police fact sheet — in court.

Det Kral wrote: “Detectives’ attention was drawn to a large number of males who were
standing around 20m away in Riley Park, Airds.

“These males whistled and yelled out sporadically.

“About 6.15pm detectives drove towards the males. The accused … was seen to stand in front of his associates. He crouched and pulled down his pants. He grabbed hold of his buttock and spread the two protuberances of his buttock. His associates laughed out loud.”

The man was ordered to front Campbelltown Court.

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