Wayne Carey accused of owing $600k in loans

Liquidators have launched action against former AFL legend Wayne Carey over allegations he owes $600,000 in outstanding loans.

Footy great turned Channel 7 commentator Wayne Carey is being chased for more than $600,000.

The Sunday Herald Sun can reveal liquidators have launched action against Carey as they try to recoup funds from his brother’s roofing company.

Queensland-based D & J Carey Roofing Pty Ltd, of which Kevin Frederick Carey, known as Dick, was a director, was placed into liquidation in May 2018.

In a statement of claim filed in the Brisbane District Court in June, Morton + Lee Insolvency allege Wayne Carey owes the company $566,176.04 for loans he received in the financial years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017.

Kevin ‘Dick’ Carey. Picture: Julian Smith

Wayne Carey. Picture: AAP

With interest from the start of the liquidation in 2018 until June 2021 the total amount now being pursued is $652,956.09.

The statement of claim states that Wayne “is indebted to the company for the sum of $566,176.04 and is liable to pay the company the sum of $566,176.04”.

“Despite demands the company has not been repaid the amounts owed to it by Wayne.

“The plaintiff claims interest … from 18 May 2018 to judgment or payment whichever is earlier.”

At this stage the interest is listed in the claim as $86,780.05.

Morton + Lee Insolvency did not respond to requests for comment.

It has engaged Rose Litigation Lawyers to act on its behalf.

Rose Litigation Lawyers declined to comment explaining: “We act on behalf of Gavin Morton, the liquidator of D&J Carey Roofing Pty Ltd (In Liquidation). Proceedings have been commenced arising from our client’s investigations. As proceedings are currently before the Court, it would be inappropriate to make a comment in relation to same.”

Wayne Carey also declined to comment.

No response to the claim has been filed yet on his behalf.

Wayne Carey has previously described his brother as his hero and credited him as the driving force behind his AFL success.

Wayne was 13-years-old when he went to live with Kevin (Dick) in Adelaide for several years as a way to escape his drunken, violent father.

Kevin was Wayne’s manager when he moved from Adelaide to Melbourne at 16 to train with the North Melbourne Football Club.

In 2010 Kevin Carey was fined $17,000 and given a 15 month suspended sentence by the Victorian County Court after pleading guilty to one count of attempting to possess a precursor chemical.

Dick Carey was charged in 2004 with assaulting Wayne Carey’s former Kangaroos teammate Mick Martyn after a 17-hour drinking binge at Wagga Wagga, but was cleared by a magistrate who found that while he did punch Martyn, it was in self-defence.

Earlier in the trial, Wayne Carey had told the court he and his brother, Adelaide Crows captain Mark Ricciuto and teammate Simon Goodwin, and former Kangaroo Brad Sholl each had up to 40 pots of beer, and spirits during a drinking binge.

They had been in the Riverina town for a charity event organised by Dick.

Martyn had claimed Dick Carey hit him twice during the night, but Dick Carey said he punched the North Melbourne fullback just once, in self defence.