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Former AFL umpire Troy Pannelll in 2012.

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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AFL umpire Troy Pannell

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
Daniel Kirby, the former director of Berndale Capital Securities, now works at Summit Auto Trading.

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
Falcon Capital founder David Anderson’s home in Hawthorn overlooking the Yarra River, Melbourne.

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
Sonja Boric, is helping her family member (a man in his late 60s) navigate a difficult legal process. She says that she knows the heartbreak of investing with Lion and her family member will likely have to return to work after losing his life savings.

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
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Australians lose more than $1 billion in investment scams per year.

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
Sonja Boric is helping a family member who invested with Lion.

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
A talented MMA fighter, Sumaiah Alshakshir is also a former employee of Venture Egg and Bespoke Marketing. She was convicted in 2021 of fraud offences.

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
Rashid Alshakshir outside of his property in Essendon.

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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