Andrew Charlton Tonks to fight fraudulent Harley Davidson investment scheme claims
An alleged conman accused of fleecing $90k from investors while running a fraudulent scheme involving the importation of Harley Davidson motorcycles will fight his charges. Details >
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An alleged conman accused of fleecing $90k from investors while running a fraudulent scheme involving the importation of Harley Davidson motorcycles will fight his charges.
Bicheno resident Andrew Charlton Tonks – who court documents also refer to as William Charlton Tonks – is accused of receiving a total of $90k from three men back in 2014.
Court documents allege the men were investors “in respect to a fraudulent investment scheme involving the importing of Harley Davidson Motorcycles from the United States of America” via Tonks’ business, ATI Logistics.
The 42-year-old has pleaded not guilty to 36 fraud related charges including 15 counts of forgery, 15 counts of uttering, five counts of dishonestly acquiring a financial advantage, and one count of fraud on a creditor.
He will also fight a charge of dishonestly acquiring a financial advantage.
Tonks is alleged to have been paid $48k by one man in June 2014, and $12k in July 2014.
A third man is alleged to have paid Tonks $24k in August of that year, and two months later paid a further $6k.
Tonks is further accused of forging 14 cheques on dates spanning January 2015 to March 2015, to a total value of $200,300.
The cheques, according to court documents, include ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and Bank of Montreal cheques.
On August 19, 2015, Tonks is alleged to have forged a Nissan Australia finance letter indicating the “unencumbered ownership of a 2014 Nissan Navara STX … on a letter dated 29th day of July 2015”.
Between August 6 and 10 that same year, Tonks is alleged to have presented that letter, which he claimed was from Nissan Australia finance, “indicating unencumbered ownership” of that same Navara STX, to the value of $38k.
He last appeared in Hobart Magistrates Court on June 20.
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