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The cafe owner, the fund manager and the $35 million windfall
Rashid Alshakshir ran successful cafes in Melbourne, a marketing business for a controversial fund manager and superannuation websites until The Age came knocking.
- by Sarah Danckert
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‘Cash for the boys’: How underworld figures pulled the strings at ASX-listed company
Earlier this year, technology group Dubber found $26.6 million of its cash reserves was missing. Text messages and a ledger of a gangland lawyer’s trust account allege the money was paid out to an array of colourful characters.
- by Sarah Danckert and Carla Jaeger
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Trading house boss still working in the industry despite guilty plea to criminal charges
Daniel Kirby admitted to offences relating to the collapse of a notorious trading house, but is legally allowed to keep working after the corporate watchdog decided not to ban him.
- by Sarah Danckert
The mud map and escape plan that upended a $500 million fraud
When businessman Bill Papas fled to Greece, he left behind smoking-gun evidence of his elaborate scheme to defraud bank lenders – and a note that sank his business partner.
- by Sarah Danckert
‘Grimm Reaper of Melbourne stockbroking’ jailed for losing victims’ life savings
Bradley Grimm will serve at least nine months behind bars for dishonestly transferring his vulnerable client’s retirement money into the bank accounts of private companies he owned.
- by Sarah Danckert and Erin Pearson
The ‘NASA command controller’ and the $50 million of lost crypto
Ash Balanian’s investors were told he was a NASA scientist, had a degree from Harvard and their investments would be safe. The Federal Court has since heard that it’s likely that none of those things are true.
- by Sarah Danckert
ASIC’s ‘grave concerns’ over use of investor funds amid sports star payment claims
Investors in the Shield Master Fund thought they were investing in property and shares. Instead, their money was improperly handled, a Melbourne court has heard.
- by Sarah Danckert
Former top barrister Norman O’Bryan charged with fraud over class action scheme
The former senior counsel, from one of Victoria’s notable legal families, is alleged to have rorted claimants in the Banksia Securities class action scheme out of millions of dollars.
- by Sarah Danckert
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Four face jail time over ‘pump and dump’ scam on messaging app
Four people face jail time after being criminally charged with operating a “pump and dump” scheme on encrypted messaging app Telegram.
- by Colin Kruger
The fallen tech titan, a suburban gangland lawyer and a $26.6m mystery
The corporate watchdog is investigating what happened to $75 million of an ASX-listed company’s cash. At the centre of the investigation are two men – a gangland lawyer and a charming tech executive.
- by Sarah Danckert and Carla Jaeger
Private jets, Ibiza villas and $9000 wines: An epic art fraudster tells all
Inigo Philbrick went to jail for the largest art swindle in US history. But he isn’t losing too much sleep over what he did.
- by Laura Pullman
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