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WA director admits investor deception

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2026
... were told their funds would be invested in foreign exchange trading. Trent Bowden appeared before the Perth Magistrates Court on June 26 and pleaded guilty to three charges of dishonestly using his position as director of Trent Bowden Trading Pty Ltd ...

ASIC charges developer over alleged $10m fraud

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2026
... disability accommodation projects, following an investigation by ASIC. McWilliams appeared before the Southport Magistrates Court on June 22, facing 13 criminal charges, including allegations he dishonestly used investor funds and caused detriment to ...

Brisbane financial adviser appears in court on dishonesty charges

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2026
Brisbane financial adviser Sunny Mahendra Prakash appeared in the city's Magistrates Court on March 6 to face multiple charges of dishonesty offences. Prakash is a director of Principal Financial Services, Self-Managed Super, Provest Enterprises, and ...

ASIC takes SMSF auditor to court for continuing work despite ban

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... them being accepted as genuine or for obtaining a gain. The matter had its first appearance in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on November 26 and has been listed for further mention on 4 March 2026. The maximum penalty for making false documents with ...

Former adviser back in Australia to face theft charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
... Court dismissed her fifth appeal in May this year. Pearson arrived in Australia late last week, facing the Perth Magistrates Court on 136 counts of stealing. The funds she misappropriated were intended for clients' self-managed super funds but were instead ...

Ascent Investment mastermind cops 33 criminal charges

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... behind a $149 million alleged Ponzi scheme, has been charged with 33 criminal offences. On May 9, the Perth Magistrates Court charged Dunjey, the director of Ascent Investment and Coaching, with 23 counts of fraud under section 409 of the Criminal Code ...

Former adviser charged with dishonest conduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... provision of financial services. Former Brisbane-based financial adviser Kristofer Ridgway appeared at Southport Magistrates Court in Queensland on November 18. Ridgway allegedly facilitated investments on behalf of clients in Steppes Alternative Asset ...

James Mawhinney arrested as Mayfair 101 saga rolls on

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... IPO Wealth Fund, Vasco Trustees, that it owned companies in Italy that it did not. He appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday and is due to reappear on June 28. As a condition of his bail, Mawhinney is not allowed to leave the country. According ...

SMSF scammers charged with criminal offences

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2024
A duo who allegedly defrauded self-managed super funds (SMSF) have been charged by the Melbourne Magistrates Court with a string of criminal offences. The charges follow an ASIC investigation into the activities of Joseph Cullia and Zoran Markovic ...

Former adviser misled ASIC during investigation: Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
... Partners. He was banned from leaving the country in June. On December 14, Ridgway appeared at the Southport Magistrates Court in Queensland. He was charged on two counts of providing false or misleading information during a compulsory examination, hence ...
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