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Caddick SMSF clients should recoup all funds: Lawyer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... are that victims are likely to get back from the receivership alone, in the order of 35 to 40 cents in the dollar. For a Ponzi scheme that is quite a remarkable result and a credit to the receivers." Mackay Chapman acted on behalf of one client during ...

Caddick victims sue auditors in class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
... licensed financial adviser and reportedly defrauded some $23 million from her clients as early as 2012, essentially running a Ponzi scheme. She disappeared on 12 November 2020, the day after ASIC raided her home. In March 2021, ASIC dropped the 38 criminal ...

Investors recoup $3m in first Caddick payout

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... of Caddick's Dover Heights property that she resided in, Bruce Gleeson, principal at Jones Partners, said. "In many Ponzi schemes, it is not unusual for investors to receive no return, so we are pleased to be able to make this distribution and anticipate ...

Mayfair 101 calls for senate inquiry into ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023
... but, in postscript, flagged that he felt "Mayfair Platinum has a deep smell of BS", referred to IPO Wealth as "a likely Ponzi", and stated that his "spidey-sense is going off badly on this." The email was sent on the evening of 27 November 2019 and ...

Perth-based Ponzi scheme shut down by court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
A Perth woman has been permanently banned from running a financial services business, while the $11 million illegal investment scheme she ran will be wound up. Monica Kaur, through her business MKS Property Investments/Developments, encouraged around ...

Melissa Caddick declared dead by coroner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
... could not be confirmed. Caddick went missing in November 2020 following a raid on her home by ASIC in relation an alleged Ponzi scheme she had been running for some time. In all, she is suspected of swindling investors out of as much as $30 million. ...

Courtenay House affiliate faces prison

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... tricked 585 investors out of $180 million. According to ASIC, Papoulias was not aware that the funds were used to fuel a Ponzi scheme. Nevertheless, when handing down the sentence, Judge McHugh SC remarked that Papoulias' actions had undermined public ...

SEC charges duo over church-based fraud

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
A man and his father-in-law were charged by the US regulator for running a $30 million Ponzi scheme in which they targeted churchgoers, gaining their trust with claims their wealth and success was due to divine intervention. According to the SEC, between ...

Ascent Investment ordered into liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2023
... Federal Court has ordered Ascent Investment and Coaching to be wound up following ASIC's investigation into a $149 million Ponzi scheme. ASIC froze the assets of Ascent and its director Michael Dunjey in late December 2021. Dunjey was also forced to ...

Former Courtenay House director pleads guilty

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
Former Courtenay House Companies director Tony Iervasi has pleaded guilty to conducting a $180 million Ponzi scheme. Iervasi, who tricked 585 investors into falling for one of the nation's biggest Ponzi schemes, appeared yesterday in the Downing ...