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Prosecution drops charges against Storm adviser

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... death of a key witness. Fullerton-Smith faced a charge of making a false or misleading statement to obtain a financial advantage and the trial was due to start in November 2014. However, charges were dropped following the recent death of an elderly prosecution ...

Adviser jailed for blowing client funds on fast cars

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... a deposit down for a family home, pay his family's mortgages and pay other investors. Cini also obtained a financial advantage for the company by evading debts due to the investors. This related to the issuing of valueless cheques to the investors worth ...

SMSFs stung by $1M property Ponzi scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... investors between 2007 and 2010 and has been charged with counts of obtaining property by deception, obtaining financial advantage by deception, theft and running a financial services business without a licence. An investigation by the Australian Securities ...

BT named 'Outstanding Institution' for HNW investors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... general manager private wealth Jane Watts said the results reflected "the team's commitment to creating enduring financial advantage for their clients." "As part of Westpac, the oldest bank and company in Australia, we understand the value our clients ...

Westpac exec gets ASIC ban after preying on elderly's finances

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... International Club Pty Ltd (CGIC). He also enabled and encouraged customers to borrow funds from Westpac and earned a financial advantage in the form of cash bonuses on the loans, in addition to his base salary, despite knowing that they were elderly ...

Sonray director to face 10 years imprisonment over unfunded deposits

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
... false withdrawals totaling $7,800,923, two charges of theft totalling $2,256,500, one charge of obtaining a financial advantage by deception and one of misleading an auditor concerning a capital injection of $5,200,000.

Accountant gets 6 years jail for promoting tax avoidance scheme

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
A Gold Coast accountant has been sentenced to 6 years jail for promoting a tax avoidance scheme to clients after the case was successfully brought forward by Project Wickenby, a cross-agency Government taskforce fighting against tax evasion, avoidance ...

Former SMSF adviser sentenced

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... received concurrent suspended sentences of 18 months imprisonment in relation to his charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception.

SMSF adviser escapes jail time with suspended sentence

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... pleading guilty to two charges brought by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) of obtaining financial advantage by deception. Dangar pleaded guilty to obtaining a total financial advantage of $250,000 by recommending that two clients ...

Unlicensed director jailed

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... to 24 months jail but ordered to serve six months. Between 6 March 2007 and 16 April 2007, Oakley gained a financial advantage for herself by using approximately $766,900 of investor funds to purchase a house. The funds had been invested with her company ...