White collar crime
- AFL Briefing
- Courts
Former AFL umpire’s driver’s licence suspended; Hawk’s season over after ‘scary’ injury
Former AFL umpire Troy Pannell appeared in the Heidelberg Magistrates Court on Wednesday, where he learnt his fate over a series of criminal charges.
- Jon Pierik and Hannah Kennelly
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Ex-AFL umpire Troy Pannell admits selling racehorse after assets were frozen
Pannell has appeared in court over the sale, amid separate claims he was behind an $8.7 million fraud scheme.
- Melissa Cunningham
McLaren-driving finance boss jailed over dishonest conduct
Former finance executive Daniel Kirby had earlier told public examinations of the collapse of Berndale Securities that the business had borrowed money from underworld figures to pay its legal fees.
- Sarah Danckert
Super fund’s $440 million blown on manager’s Lamborghini, riverside mansion, pet projects
Falcon Capital was one of the super switching schemes the corporate regulator warned about last week. Now there’s more bad news for scheme’s 6000 customers.
- Sarah Danckert
Investors win court fight to wind up Lion Property Group as lawyers drop cash-strapped developer
A court has appointed liquidators to the group after it failed to provide its books and records for a promised audit and ran out of cash to pay its lawyers.
- Sarah Danckert
Alert issued over ‘industrial-scale misconduct’ in super-switching schemes
The corporate watchdog has taken the unusual step of warning Australians about super promotions amid fears more than $1 billion has been lost in rogue schemes.
- Sarah Danckert
CommBank unleashes ‘bot army’ with Aussie accents to trap scammers
Thousands of bots will receive calls from fraudsters, with computer-generated voices mimicking Australian accents and speech patterns wasting scammers’ time.
- Elias Visontay
- Exclusive
- Investigation
Investors take property group to court in search of missing millions
A group of investors has gone to the Supreme Court seeking to learn more about what has happened to money they invested in a series of syndicates.
- Sarah Danckert
Ruckman, MMA fighter and cafe supremo snared in corporate collapse
A financial planning company at the centre of an ASIC probe employed a convicted fraudster and mixed martial arts fighter.
- Sarah Danckert
- Exclusive
- Investigation
We found the cafe owner at the centre of a $500m ASIC fight
Rashid Alshakshir is alleged to have received large sums of money for leading investors into the now failed Shield Master Fund overseen by Paul Chiodo. He was not happy to see us.
- Sarah Danckert and Amilia Rosa
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