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| | A ponzi-style investment scheme that defrauded Collingwood Magpies fans out of more than $800,000 has seen one man convicted on dishonesty charges while his wife is already serving time for fraud offences. Douglas Johnston was found guilty on nine dishonesty ... |
| | | ... Grant Thornton, said in its report to the Supreme Court of NSW in November last year that Courtenay House was operating a ponzi scheme. The liquidators found in their investigation that the Courtenay House companies were operating a ponzi scheme since ... |
| | | A Ponzi scheme that allegedly duped 8400 retail investors in the US has been ordered to pay US$1 billion in penalties and disgorgement. Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC and its former owner and chief executive Robert H. Shapiro lured retail investors ... |
| | | Not to rain on the fintech parade but financial advisers and investors in Australia must stay alert against Ponzi schemes posing as P2P platforms. In a paper released by the SWIFT Institute titled "Quo Vadis? A comparison of the fintech revolution in ... |
| | | ... according to its website. OffShoreAlert found, it said, "funds that are blatantly fraudulent, including a current $130 million Ponzi scheme in Cayman... [As well as] funds that simply disappear or fail in dubious circumstances, including the A£400 million ... |
| | | Barry John Patrick, a 71-year-old man from Victoria, has been charged for illegally obtaining more than $1 million from self-managed super fund (SMSF) investors to fund property development. Patrick obtained the money from 14 investors between 2007 ... |
| | | ... states. "Australians are being targeted for mass marketed fraud, including 'boiler-room' or cold-call investment fraud and Ponzi schemes, with organised crime also seeking to exploit and manipulate the legitimate securities and share market for criminal ... |
| | | ... ASIC said. The situation relates to the collapse of property investment brand Westpoint Corporation, which was running a Ponzi scheme that collapsed in January 2006. Around 3,500 investors invested a total of $304 million across seven mezzanine funds. ... |
| | | ... described as the "mastermind" behind more than a dozen unregistered offshore managed investment funds, including a $30 million Ponzi scheme, was yesterday ordered to pay $500, 000. Along with his wife Jacqueline Hobbs and 12 other people, he operated ... |
| | | ... judgment in the long-running case against New Zealand businessman David Hobbs, who stands accused of heading a US$42 million Ponzi scheme. ASIC first took action against the unlicensed operators of 14 unregistered offshore managed investment funds operating ... |
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