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Investors warned on human rights risk in Israel-Hamas conflict

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2023
... armed conflicts currently underway in the world. Fauve Kurnadi, a legal adviser on international humanitarian law at Australian Red Cross, noted the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement's extreme concern about the escalation of armed violence ...

Industry grapples with looming cyber threats

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023
... seen a significant increase in the sophistication and frequency of cyber-attacks. "In general terms, I do believe that Australian financial services organisations are focused on pre-paring for future cyber-attacks," Kallenbach says. This is driven, in ...

Data sharing laws updated in response to Optus breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... identity theft or cybersecurity incidents. Entities that wish to receive the data must provide written commitments to the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission that they will obey all their obligations under the legislation and, once no longer ...

Bond scam defrauds SMSFs $2.8m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2021
... 13 counts of obtaining financial benefit by deception and 13 counts of reckless dealing with proceeds of crime. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found that Australians have lost over $70 million to investment scams in the first half ...

Criminal charges in property investor collapse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... financial advice to retail investors. In 2016, the companies were placed into liquidation with $26 million owing to the Australian Tax Office. Marlborough was charged with 21 counts of trading while insolvent,10 counts of dishonestly using his position ...

Man arrested over investment scam

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
An investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has culminated in an arrest over a suspected investment scam. The 42-year-old Melbourne man was arrested following a joint investigation by ASIC and Victoria Police E-Crime Squad ...

Tax fraud goes from paradise to prison

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... 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 District Court of Queensland due to his involvement in an intricate tax ...

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 ...

Another sentenced in ATO fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... non-parole 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 ...

12 charged in $17m fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
A joint-agency investigation into an elaborate $17 million fraud has resulted in charges against 12 people. Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigators executed search warrants at 10 locations across Sydney, nine in south-east Queensland and two in ...
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