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Fraudsters rob super funds for petrol

... fraudulently inducing persons to redeem their superannuation, using his position as company director to gain a financial advantage and failing to disclose pecuniary interests when making investment recommendations. Meanwhile, Patrick has been charged ...

ASIC nabs planner and catches two directors

... January 2004. Drakos will face a committal hearing on 14 criminal charges including eight counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception, two counts of fraudulent misappropriation and four counts of making and using false documents. Following an ...

ASIC bans financial planner in the west

... to conceal the act, created a fictitious identity in order to mislead clients, and had a tendency to take financial advantage of consumers to whom he provided financial services. ASIC executive director of enforcement Jan Redfern warns, "ASIC will take ...

Former NAB currency trader appears in court

... Victoria charged with 19 counts of dishonestly using his position as an employee and one charge of obtaining a financial advantage by deception. The charges are the result of an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (AISC) ...

Former NAB financial planner charged over massive fraud

Paul Drakos has appeared in Sydney Local Court to answer eight charges of obtaining a financial advantage by deception, two charges of fraudulent misappropriation and four charges of making and using false documents. The 14 criminal charges brought ...

Another casualty in Tasmanian solicitor schemes

... of conspiracy to defraud investors of approximately $1.4 million and one count of dishonestly acquiring a financial advantage. He was involved in solicitor's mortgages schemes run by Hobart law firms law firms Lewis Driscoll & Bull and McCulloch & McCulloch ...

Former financial adviser imprisoned

... three months with a non-parole period of four years after he pleaded guilty to five charges of obtaining a financial advantage by deception. Mr Street was involved in a Nigerian scam where he invested over $1 million of client's funds in the expectation ...

Bradley Cooper to stand trial

... of HIH Insurance (HIH) and seven charges of publishing a false or misleading statement in order to obtain a financial advantage. Mr Cooper is alleged to have paid former HIH finance general manager William Howard between $119,000 and $124,000 to expedite ...

Financial planner pleads guilty to fraud

Former financial planner Mr Robert Andrew Street has pleaded guilty to five charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception in the Melbourne County Court following an investigation by the ASIC. The fraud took place between September 2001 and August ...

Nigerian letter scam victim pleads guilty

A Victorian financial adviser has plead guilty to five counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception, following his reply to a person purporting to be a representative of a Nigerian government committee, and a subsequent investigation by the ...