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Mortgage broker faces trial on 21 charges

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
A Victorian mortgage broker will face trial on 21 theft and deception charges relating to $600,000 he allegedly illegally obtained from clients. Former mortgage broker Michael Cay of Victoria was committed to trial by the Melbourne Magistrates Court ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... commercial ideas that are being stolen from them by Chinese operators. Despite a commitment to crack down on this form of crime the Chinese government does not have a good record on this front. The Australian Industry Group has released its Performance ...

Anti-phishing industry code needed

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
... banking, banks should not be using email," he said. "Phishing emails used to be badly spelt and poorly worded but organised crime is behind most of it now and phishing is much more sophisticated. It is unfair to expect the customer to pick and choose ...

Banks under growing IT security threat: Deloitte

... payments. Priest said that there has been a paradigm shift where the attacks are coming from professional hackers and organised crime, not just 'script kiddies' or one-off hackers. Her colleague, Deloitte Security partner Dean Kingsley commented, "We're ...

Mortgage broker arrested

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2006
A former mortgage broker has been arrested and charged following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Michael Cay was arrested in Beechworth, Victoria, following an ASIC investigation into his conduct as the ...

ASIC charges four over margin lending scam

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
Four people have been charged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) regarding unlawful and misleading conduct which resulted in Sydney investors taking out and subsequently defaulting on Macquarie Bank Margin Lending loans. ...

NAB financial planner guilty of fraud

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2006
A former NAB financial planner has pleaded guilty to 13 criminal counts of dishonest conduct and fraud in the District Court of NSW. Paul Drakos, from the Central Coast in NSW, yesterday entered a guilty plea to eight counts of dishonestly obtaining ...

Machiavellian Macville gets prison term

A former financial planner and adviser from Queensland was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment after being found guilty of six fraud charges. Robert Pierre Macville funnelled client funds of around $470,000 into his own private company Macville ...

ASIC comes down on financial services fraud

A former director of Sydney financial services business, Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, has been sentenced to eight years jail after being found guilty of fraud worth $2.2 million to fund a personal gambling habit. Craig John McKim pleaded guilty ...

ABA counters international non-compliance findings

... to tighten legislation. The FATF was part of a world wide review, conducted in an attempt to stem the flow of financial crime. The report bundled Australia in a non-compliant category alongside Switzerland, Italy and most recently, Norway and Belgium ...