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Former director charged with fraud

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2023
... Guevara Capital Access and Online Trading Capital has been charged with eight counts of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception. Mark McCabe appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court last week to receive the penalties. It was alleged ...

Former financial adviser charged with fraud

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2022
A former financial adviser has been convicted of fraud after using false documents to obtain a financial advantage. Ashley Grant Howard pleaded pleading guilty before the Downing Centre Local Court to two charges of using false documents to obtain a ...

Charges laid against former BBY head of operations

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2022
... Limited head of operations Fiona Mae Bilton has been charged with three counts of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage. Bilton was found to have deceived St George Bank on 115 separate occasions between June 2013 and May 2015. The charges are ...

Adviser jailed for illegal super access

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... attempted to obtain a further $92,400 on behalf of 10 clients. Saad was convicted of one count of obtaining financial advantage by deception and one count of attempting to obtain financial advantage by deception. The County Court of Victoria sentenced ...

Conditional release for former Hillross adviser

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2021
... intention of inducing AMP employees to accept them as genuine. Kourieh's conduct was intended to obtain a financial advantage for himself via commissions from AMP. The matter came to ASIC's attention via a breach report lodged by AMP.

ASIC bans adviser over $5m fraud

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... May 7, Fineff was arrested and charged by New South Wales Police with 18 offences of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception. Now, ASIC has permanently banned him and has suggested that Fineff may have sourced more than $5 million from ...

Former adviser charged with $3.3m fraud

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... Police confirmed to Financial Standard that Gavin Fineff was charged with 18 offences of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception. The 42-year-old from Artarmon allegedly defrauded clients between May 2017 and March 2020 as an authorised ...

Former adviser cops eight-year ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... April, former Apogee Financial Planning representative Ahmed Saad pleaded guilty for dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception for his role in an illegal retail superannuation scheme. Saad pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining financial ...

Former adviser pleads guilty over million-dollar super theft

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
Victorian-based Ahmed Saad has pleaded guilty after previously being charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception for his role in an illegal retail superannuation scheme. ASIC alleges that Saad, while working as an authorised ...

Former Apogee adviser charged with deception

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
Victorian-based Ahmed Saad appeared in court after being charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception for his role in an illegal retail superannuation scheme. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) alleges ...