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Tax fraud goes from paradise to prison

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
A key promoter of a tax evasion scheme who had been living in Vanuatu for several years 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 ...

Perpetual wins government fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... as Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and other Pacific Islands. It will invest across a variety of sectors including agriculture, healthcare ...

Financial crime taskforce puts two behind bars

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... Office and Australian Federal Police began investigating large-scale money laundering and tax evasion schemes based in Vanuatu. In turn, it led them to the activities of Agius and Castagna, who are cousins. The pair organised monthly consulting payments ...

FPA awards associate adviser of the year

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... goods to poor and vulnerable communities around the world. In the five years since the company sent its first container to Vanuatu, it has sent 15 more to countries such as Uganda, Sierra Leone and South Sudan.

ASIC slaps biggest fine ever

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... million was invested in 14 individual investment funds in countries including New Zealand, the United States, Hong Kong, Vanuatu, the Bahamas, Anguilla, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. In a decision in November 2012, the Supreme Court of NSW found ...

Judgment reserved for accused Ponzi head

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... investment funds operating in Australia in 2010. ASIC claims the operators of these funds, including Hobbs and the former Vanuatu company, Future Trading Corporation Ltd., none of whom held an Australian Financial Services licence, targeted Australian ...

ASIC obtains orders against Vanuatu financial website companies

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2004
Four Vanuatu-based financial services websites have been banned from operating in Australia and their directors ordered to hand over their passports in the lead up to a Federal Court hearing later this month. The Australian Securities and Investments ...

ASIC obtains undertakings over misleading website

... deceptive. Broking is an Australian-based company that brokers insurance business for International, a company incorporated in Vanuatu. Broking and the website promotes the sale of insurance products underwritten by International to Australian consumers. ...

Court discontinues proceedings brought against APRA

... consumers about buying insurance policies with Rural & General International Insurance Ltd. The company is registered in Vanuatu as an exempt general insurer and is not authorised to carry on insurance business in or from within Vanuatu or to solicit ...

APRA disqualifies two superannuation trustees

... consumers buying insurance policies with Rural and General International Insurance Limited. The company is registered in Vanuatu as an exempt general insurer and is not authorised to insure any risks with Vanuatu or to solicit insurance business from ...
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