Melissa Caddick’s husband Anthony Koletti says she was murdered

The husband of missing fraudster businesswoman Melissa Caddick says he thinks she was murdered — adding that his list of suspects is long.

He’s kept silent for months about the fate of his fraudster wife Melissa Caddick, but now Anthony Koletti says he believes she was murdered.

In a bombshell interview screening just weeks after police wrapped up their investigations into Caddick’s fate, Koletti also denies that he had any part in helping his wife escape scrutiny over ­defrauding millions from clients who included family members and trusting friends.

Anthony Koletti with his wife Melissa Caddick, who is missing and accused of fleecing clients of $23 million.

The last person known to have seen Caddick, 49, alive, Koletti waited 30 hours ­before reporting her missing after corporate watchdog ASIC executed a search warrant at the couple’s luxury Dover Heights home on ­November 11.

After three months of a high-profile search, her severed foot, in a distinctive, ­expensive running shoe, was found by campers on a beach near Tathra, 400km south of Sydney.

Koletti says he doesn’t ­accept Caddick would have taken her own life.

“I don’t believe that she committed suicide,” he tells a 7 News Spotlight documentary to air tonight.

“Her love for her son, myself, her family, friends was far beyond that.

“She was so happy. She loved (her son) and I, I don’t believe that that’s what she did.”

Koletti tells 7NEWS Spotlight: The Vanishing he believes his wife was murdered.

Koletti, 38, says he also doesn’t believe Caddick is living elsewhere with a new identity, and denies that his decision to wait 30 hours to report her missing was “to give Melissa time to disappear, to go, to hide”.

“Yeah. Didn’t happen,” Koletti says in the interview for which he was paid.

Koletti still lives in the luxury eastern suburbs mansion he shared with Caddick and her son. Caddick purchased the newly renovated five-bedroom, four-bathroom home with double garage, Sydney Harbour views and heated pool on a 390sqm block in Wallangra Road for $6.2 million in 2014.

A caveat was placed on the property in December by liquidators hoping to recoup the $23 million Caddick owed to at least 74 creditors identified by ASIC, which in March dropped its criminal charges in order to let civil action by her victims proceed.

The morning after ASIC and AFP agents raided Caddick’s home, her son heard her leave at 5.30am for her regular morning run, leaving behind her wallet and phone.

There was speculation Caddick walked to nearby cliffs and ended her life.

But Koletti said that he ­believed it was “most likely” that she was murdered.

“My suspect list is long,” he says.

“If it came out, if the police came to me and said, ‘Melissa was murdered’, I’d be like, ‘It makes sense’.

“There are only two scenarios and I, I think it’s most ­likely.”

Koletti denies knowing anything about Caddick’s ­alleged crimes, which came to light in the months after she vanished.

Caddick allegedly issued fraudulent trading statements to her clients, many of whom were long-time friends, and $20 million had passed through her bank accounts.

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