Melissa Caddick’s husband Anthony Koletti ordered to leave eastern suburbs mansion
Anthony Koletti has been living in his wife’s Dover Heights mansion ever since she disappeared, but a judge on Tuesday told him he has two weeks to up sticks as debt collectors plan to sell it.
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A judge has told missing fraudster Melissa Caddick’s husband that he has only two weeks to leave her luxury Dover Heights mansion as receivers flag they intend to put the property on the market.
Caddick, who vanished in November 2020 a day after authorities had raided the home over a Ponzi scheme in which she allegedly stole more than $20 million from investors, purchased the five-bedroom, four-bathroom property that boasts harbour views for more than $6 million in 2014.
Her husband, DJ Anthony Koletti, has remained living in the property rent free ever since, but Federal Court Justice Brigitte Markovic said on Tuesday he has two weeks to up sticks.
“Anthony Koletti is to deliver up and vacate the Dover Heights property on or before May 18 2022,” the judge said.
“ (Mr) Koletti (is to) be granted liberty to apply on two days’ written notice in respect of any dispute regarding the removal of personal property and items.”
The court heard Mr Koletti consented to the orders. He is not accused of any wrongdoing in relation to his wife’s criminal activities or disappearance.
The receivers in the matter would need to seek a direction from a judge in relation to the sale of the Dover Heights home, the court was told.
Receivers seek to secure assets and manage affairs to pay off debts.
Barrister Steven Golledge SC, acting on behalf of the receivers, said his clients intended to proceed to sell the property.
He said they were contemplating seeking a direction to allow them to sell the property and then put the money of the sale into a trust account because there would be “competing claims” to the proceeds.
Justice Markovic replied: “Quite a few competing claims I imagine”.
Solicitor Sarah Swan, acting on behalf of Mr Koletti, said she wanted the money from the sale put into a quarantined trust account.
“The only real issue of contention may be if the receivers intend to, at this stage, do anything with any proceeds of sale and if that’s not the case then I don’t anticipate there will be any issue – as long as those monies are quarantined in a trust account as Mr Golledge has indicated would be the case,” Ms Swan said.
Justice Markovic said the appropriate course of action would be that the money of the sale would be placed in “some form of trust account or interest-bearing account.”
The court heard the legal team acting for the receivers would seek a direction this week about the sale of the Dover Heights home.
The Australian Investment and Securities Commission (ASIC) has alleged Ms Caddick posed as a financial advisor and pretended to invest millions on behalf of clients into CommSec portfolios but instead spent the money on herself.
The missing conwoman’s decomposed foot was found on a beach near Tathra on the NSW south coast more than three months after her disappearance, but the coroner is yet to rule on her death.
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