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Adviser sentenced to eight years' prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... Synchron's compliance manager then flew to Townsville, where Dick was based, eventually escalating the issue to the police. "The fact that he got sentenced to eight years, I think is good for the industry. It's a little disappointing that the ...

Westpac reaches $1.3bn AUSTRAC deal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... in relation to suspicious transactions, meant AUSTRAC and law enforcement were missing critical intelligence to support police investigations." Rose said such a large number of breaches over several years was unacceptable and could have been avoided ...

CSIRO contractor in crypto scam

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
... out after the CSIRO noticed serious impairment of its computing infrastructure and reported it to the Australian Federal Police. The man was employed on a contract basis by the CSIRO to perform data archiving and software support. Through his role he ...

Grow Super founder pleads guilty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
... the Year award, which he did. The NRL Integrity Unit reported suspicious betting activity on the Dally M Awards to the police in November 2019. For a period of time between 2018 and 2019 Grow Super and StatEdge shared an office in Surry Hills. Wilson ...

Former analyst gets three year sentence

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... website had never actually paid anything to the company; and the then chair Richard Evertz was convicted of impersonating a police officer in 1994. By February 2018, Big Un was suspended from quotation on the ASX and finally delisted in August that year. ...

La Trobe launches new loan suite

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... said. "We are now offering discounted loan pricing to people who provide emergency services to our community, including police, fire and emergency services, Australian Defence Force and emergency medical service workers." The second product is a Bridging ...

Tax fraud goes from paradise to prison

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... to avoid arrest has been jailed for six years following a 19-year joint investigation by the ATO and Australian Federal Police. Philip Northam was sentenced in the District Court of Queensland due to his involvement in an intricate tax evasion scheme ...

AFP charges early release scammers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
The Australian Federal Police have charged three people with allegedly submitting false claims to gain early access to superannuation under the new COVID-19 measures. AFP Taskforce Iris has charged seven people in total with submitting false early release ...

CalPERS chief investment officer resigns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... investments to generate a 7% return that is needed to provide retirement security to our members including firefighters, police officers, school employees, nurses, engineers and judges. We have a fiduciary responsibility to our members and invest accordingly," ...

Another sentenced in ATO fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... period of five years. His arrest was part of Operation Elbrus, which commenced in 2016 and was led by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and assisted by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). It involved pay-as-you-go withholding tax and goods and services ...