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Jailed super fraudsters forfeit nearly $6m

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2006
... face charges. In December 2004 the pair were jailed for 18 months and fined $200,000. Yesterday, however, the NSW Supreme Court ordered the forfeiture of overseas investments and cash totaling nearly $6 million, as well as a motor boat purchased for ...

GIO Insurance directors hit with heavy penalties

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
Three former directors of GIO Insurance were disqualified and dealt hefty fines by the NSW Supreme Court after an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation into their dishonest and improper conduct. Geoffrey Vines, Francis ...

Accountants to investigate investment scheme

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
... and Matthew Joiner of chartered accountants Jefferson Collins Joiner. Both parties consented to orders made by the Supreme Court of Queensland for Jefferson Collins Joiner to investigate and report back to the court in 21 days. Gerald Collins and Joiner ...

Directors banned over unregistered schemes

... by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Dr Fredric Acker was banned for 10 years by the Supreme Court of Queensland while Gerilyn Polanski, also a director of Atlantic 3, was banned for eight years. The Court also directed the ...

Westpoint fundraiser's last minute dash

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2006
... receiver over his property, to wind up Palentia and freeze the assets of related company, Tenala. By the time the Supreme Court of New South Wales had made the orders, Burnard had already boarded a plane on Friday morning. The dash came after Burnard ...

Market Wrap

... Toll Holdings in August. NEW YORK - US stocks rose, with the Dow average boosted by gains in Altria after the US Supreme Court's favorable ruling for the tobacco industry and a rally in General Motors shares following a union deal to cut health-care ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2005
... earnings and the ASX will host its annual general meeting. Also Toll and Patrick will square off in the Victorian Supreme Court. On the economics front the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release quarterly job vacancy data and the market will react ...

Fincorp returns $21m to investors

... more than 1,000 investors of its 2004 prospectus, due to misleading and omitted information in the document. The Supreme Court of NSW has made orders by consent for Fincorp to make corrective disclosure and offer a full refund to investors of the prospectus ...

ASIC shuts down property investment companies

The Supreme Court of Victoria has granted an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) application to have Casey Downs Retirement Villages and Ambridge Retirement Management Services wound up. The order to have the two property investment ...

Another win for Bridges against the taxman

... the New South Wales Office of State Revenue (NSW OSR) regarding its payroll tax assessment in the New South Wales Supreme Court. As long as the NSW OSR does not appeal the decision, the ruling will boost the bottom line result of Bridges parent company ...