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Rashid Alshakshir, Paul Chiodo and the Tickled Pink cafe brand.

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.

  • Sarah Danckert

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John Khoury (left) and Mohammed ‘Mo’ Abou-Eid feature in a secret report that digs into how ASX-listed company Dubber lost $26.6 million in cash.

‘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.

  • Sarah Danckert and Carla Jaeger
Daniel Kirby, the former director of Berndale Capital Securities, now works at Summit Auto Trading.

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.

  • Sarah Danckert
Bill Papas left a mud mad for his fraud scheme.

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.

  • Sarah Danckert
Financial planner Bradley Grimm has been jailed.

‘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.

  • Sarah Danckert and Erin Pearson
Ashod ‘Ash’ Balanian arrives at court on Friday to give evidence for the sixth time at the public examinations into the collapse of his cryptocurrency-based fund.

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.

  • Sarah Danckert
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Paul Chiodo.

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.

  • Sarah Danckert
Norman O’Bryan.

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.

  • Sarah Danckert
Four individuals have been charged by ASIC for a market manipulation scheme, including Syed Yusuf who was seen leaving the Downing Centre Courthouse.

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.

  • Colin Kruger
Mark Madafferi and Steve McGovern.

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.

  • Sarah Danckert and Carla Jaeger

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