Melissa Caddick: Missing millionaire skips court appearance
Businesswoman Melissa Caddick was due to defend herself against the corporate regulator which has frozen her assets including 17 bank accounts.
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Missing millionaire Melissa Caddick was a no-show when the case against her by the corporate regulator ASIC was mentioned in the Federal Court this morning.
ASIC has applied to the court to appoint a provisional liquidator to the Ms Caddick’s company Maliver.
Ms Caddick, 49, was last seen in the early hours on Thursday November 12, two days after the Federal Police raided her $7 million clifftop home in Wallangra Road, Dover Heights as part of an investigation by ASIC.
The Federal Court has frozen her assets including her 17 bank accounts and confiscated her passport as ASIC investigates claims that the businesswoman scammed investors in her company, Maliver Pty Ltd, of as much as $40 million.
Ms Caddick granted her older brother Adam Grimley an Enduring Power of Attorney and he was represented in court today by his lawyer David Sulman.
Mr Grimley has earlier said he spoke to his sister two days before she disappeared after the mother-of-one apparently left home about 5.30am on November 12 to go on her usual morning run. Her husband, DJ and former hairdresser Anthony Koletti, said it was unusual for her not to take her phone.
Her disappearance was not mentioned in court this morning and the case was adjourned to December 15 by Justice Kathleen Farrell.
Among the lines of investigation, police are looking at whether she staged her own disappearance. The CCTV hard drive outside her home had been seized by the AFP so there is no record of her leaving.
Records show that as well as her Dover Heights home which she bought in 2014 for $6,200,000, Ms Caddick also owns a three-bedroom unit with sweeping harbour views in Ocean Street, Edgecliff which she bought for $2,550,000 in November 2016.
She used to run her business from a previous home in Iris Street, Paddington which she sold for $930,000 in 2006.
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