NSW Police Commissioner says Melissa Caddick can’t be acting alone

After eluding police for 14 weeks, NSW’s top cop says Melissa Caddick would not be acting alone and that ‘it’s time to come home’.

The state’s top cop believes missing alleged fraudster Melissa Caddick would not be acting alone as he openly speculated she may have skipped the country.

The 49-year-old has not been seen for 14 weeks after federal investigators raided her house as part of an investigation into the misappropriation of clients’ funds.

NSW Police is leading the investigation into her disappearance and working on the assumption she is still alive.

ASICS raid on Melissa Caddick. Picture: NSW Police.

Melissa Caddick's Dover Heights home. She has been missing for more than three months. Picture: Damian Shaw

Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said there was a likelihood other members of the community were helping her.

“You would have to safely assume that if her journey was one to leave Australia and to go overseas, particularly at the moment with the challenges getting out of the country without specific border forced approval, one would think that she would have to have the help of someone,” he 2GB’s Ben Fordham.

“She is not the first person who has been alleged to have engaged in fraudulent activity, the reality is that the assets gained and used by her have all been locked down by government agencies.

“I think for her and her family it would be time to come home.”

NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller. Picture: NCA NewsWire

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) began investi­gating the mother-of-one last year after a tip-off that she was using someone else’s financial services licence.

Then on November 11, ASIC raided her Dover Heights mansion and seized designer goods, computers and business records.

That was the last time she was seen by anyone other than her husband and 15-year-old son. Neither her husband or son are accused of any wrongdoing in relation to the ASIC investigation or her disappearance.

Many of Ms Caddick’s clients started off as friends before they trusted her to manage their superannuation and investments.

NSW Police have followed up about 50 tips about Ms Caddick’s whereabouts, from Victoria to South Australia and Queensland during the past three months.