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Ascent Investment mastermind cops 33 criminal charges

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
Michael Dunjey, the mastermind 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 ...

Court approves Caddick SMSF class action settlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... Financial Standard that this is a "fair and reasonable outcome" and an "exceptional" one given the context of the Ponzi scheme that fraudulent financial adviser Caddick ran. Combining the class action amount and receivership compensation, Chapman said ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... social superiority, it's the 'my way or the highway.'" Assessing cryptocurrency, Dimon describes it as a "Ponzi scheme" and "as useless as a pet rock" but does not completely write it off. "We are going to have some kind of digital currency ...

Court sentences Ponzi scheme promoter

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... guilty to aiding and abetting Tony Iervasi, who was the director of Courtenay House that admitted to running it as a Ponzi scheme. Iervasi raised $180 million from 585 investors. Sipina managed to recruit 215 investors. He made a whopping $3.9 million ...

Settlement reached in Caddick class action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
... anticipate any difficulties in that respect." Chapman said given the difficulties in receiving any money back from a Ponzi scheme, those involved in the action are very pleased. "It is an amazing result from a Ponzi scheme, and it's a credit to the ...

Former Courtenay House director sentenced

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
Former Courtenay House director Tony Iervasi has been sentenced to prison for 11 years, with a non-parole period of seven years, for his involvement in one of the nation's biggest Ponzi schemes. Between 13 December 2010 and 21 April 2017, Iervasi ...

SEC seeks to shut down $450m Ponzi scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
The US regulator has filed charges over a $453 million Ponzi scheme that saw more than 2000 investors' retirement savings spent on luxury yachts, private jets and more. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) obtained a preliminary injunction ...

James Mawhinney arrested as Mayfair 101 saga rolls on

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
... a years-long battle with ASIC now, with the regulator taking him to court for operating what it believes to be a Ponzi scheme and Mawhinney fighting the claims and accusing ASIC of its own misconduct in pursuing him. In the latest instalment, Mawhinney ...

Third person pleads guilty in Courtenay House Ponzi scheme

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... director of the Courtenay House companies Tony Iervasi has also pleaded guilty to charges linked to operating the Ponzi scheme. The sentencing hearing for Iervasi will take place on April 22 and April 24 in the Supreme Court of NSW. Following his guilty ...

Massive crypto Ponzi scheme unravels

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024
A US court and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have slapped charges on three individuals that include an Australian citizen for allegedly perpetrating a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as HyperFund, raising $2.6 billion (US$1.7bn). ...
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