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Corporate advisor charged over $2m theft

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2022
... Brigg Macadam. The firm has made clear Torre has never been an employee or associate. Under the Western Australian Criminal Code, the maximum penalty for each offence of stealing is seven years' imprisonment and the maximum penalty for each offence ...

Border rule-breaking former adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2022
... with a direction under the Emergency Management Act 2005 and of gaining a benefit by fraud in contravention of the Criminal Code WA. Babbage was sentenced to 10 months jail by the Perth Magistrates Court. At the time, ASIC confirmed to Financial Standard ...

Former AMP, Synchron adviser charged

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... maximum penalty of between 10 to 14 years imprisonment, depending on when the offences occurred after a change in the Criminal Code over the 11 years of Dick's alleged dishonest use of client's funds. The matter was brought before the Townsville Magistrates ...

Former NAB, Infocus advisers banned

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... representative of Infocus Securities Australia. Williams had been charged with fraud and stealing under the Queensland Criminal Code. ASIC said that by "failing to disclose this information to Infocus and the professional indemnity insurer, Ms Williams ...

Perth adviser to face court

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... accounts, according to WAPF. WAPF has charged the adviser with eight counts of stealing contrary to s378 of the WA Criminal Code 1913 (WA). He is due to appear at the Joondalup Magistrates Court on September 9. Separate to the incident, Platinum Perpetual ...

ClearView director dismissed of charges

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... New Guinea Constabulary. The police laid charges for one count of conspiracy to defraud under section 407 of the Criminal Code 1974 (Papua New Guinea). ClearView said in an August 2 statement: "The matters relating to Mr Brown's arrest and the charge ...

AAT overrides adviser ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... business name. Fletcher was convicted twice in 2014 for a number of serious fraud-related offences under the Queensland Criminal Code. A person is automatically disqualified from managing corporations if the person is convicted of an offence under the ...

ClearView defends arrested director

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... Monday, charging the NASFUND chief investment officer with one count of conspiracy to defraud under section 407 of the Criminal Code 1974 (Papua New Guinea).

Adviser contravenes FoFA obligations

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... Queensland based financial adviser Dr Roger Gareth Munro following five counts of fraud under s408c of the Queensland Criminal Code. In 2015, ASIC filed a successful application in the Supreme Court of Queensland alleging that Munro breached s911A of ...

ASIC employee faces court

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... Police. Mahmoud Daher was charged with unauthorised access to restricted data contrary to subsection 478.1(1) of the Criminal Code Act 1995 and making a false document contrary to section 138(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing ...