A key witness from JPMorgan previously contested claims by the ACCC that a key component of an alleged cartel arrangement between four major banks around a $2.5 billion institutional share placement by ANZ was actually an ‘agreement,’ as opposed to a series of independent decisions, a court has heard.
Two key witnesses from JPMorgan have been grilled by lawyers for three major investments banks named in a high-stakes criminal cartel case as the banks seek to cast doubt on how the ACCC gathered evidence during its almost two-year cartel investigation.
An investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has come under fire by the banks and directors targeted in a criminal case over alleged cartel conduct that claim the regulator “contaminated” key evidence and improperly used material supplied by ASIC.
Lawyers for former Citigroup executive Stephen Roberts have complained that prosecutors have failed to provide a âshred of materialâ to explain his alleged involvement in a criminal cartel relating to ANZâs $2.5 billion capital raising, as the defendants fight to grill Crown witnesses before trial.
Former Plutus Payroll general manager Joshua Kitson has been sentenced to at least three years in jail for his role in a conspiracy to defraud $105 million from the Australian Taxation Office.
A former senior manager of Plutus Payroll played a “high level” role in a complex scheme that defrauded the Australian Taxation Office to the tune of $105 million, a court has heard, in a case involving one of the biggest revenue losses ever prosecuted.