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SEC sues Kraken exchange again

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
... business, and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Binance will fork out $4 billion to resolve the Justice Department's investigation and Zhao, who has also pleaded guilty to failing to maintain effective anti-money laundering ...

Future Fund exposed to dangerous Chinese investments: Opposition

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2023
... from a Xinjiang firm involved in controversial labour programs, while China Merchants Bank has been accused by the US Justice Department of facilitating transactions for a company laundering money for North Korea.

Caddick victims sue auditors in class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
... allege that the auditors engaged in breach of contract, negligence, and misleading or deceptive conduct or representations. Justice Markovic is set to preside over the class action. Former clients, many of whom had SMSFs, believed their money was predominately ...

Federal Court freezes assets of pension platform

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
... providers, qualifying recognised overseas pension schemes, and self-managed superannuation funds. According to court documents, Justice Banks-Smith ordered that Brite be restrained from removing property from Australia, diminishing the value of any of ...

ASIC loses case against Diversa

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023
... honestly, and fairly, nor did it fail to take reasonable steps to ensure authorised representatives complied with the law. Justice Button said the regulator's case was "altogether too superficial to be accepted", saying that it "overlooked the detailed ...

ANZ breached disclosure laws in 2015 raise: Court

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2023
... Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's criminal case against ANZ and its underwriters last year. Federal Court Justice Moshinsky said that if the information had been disclosed by ANZ, persons who commonly invest in securities would have held ...

Provide Capital ordered to produce documents

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023
... Provide has produced redacted copies of certain documents in response to the notice without being entitled to so redact." Justice Michael O'Bryan noted that the evidence demonstrated a history of delay and obfuscation on the part of Provide in complying ...

AMP challenges BOLR court ruling

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023
... businesses slashed by 40%. AMP filed a Notice of Appeal in the Federal Court yesterday, challenging the decision handed down by Justice Mark Moshinsky on July 5. Based on solid evidence, Justice Moshinsky found that Equity Financial Planners and Wealthstone ...

Former adviser lands in jail

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2023
... September 2019 after Western Australian police charged him with eight counts of stealing at the time. On September 22, Justice Lonsdale charged Sebo with 36 counts of stealing from clients' accounts. "I find that the offending was not just opportunistic. ...

NextGen Financial Group forced into liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2023
... after accepting the order on 24 November 2022, but did not. The trustee took the case to Federal Court and on July 12, Justice O'Callaghan sided with WJ & V Drakoulis Super based on the "simple and incontrovertible fact" that the sum of $270,523.67 ...