ASIC has won its bid to wind up accused Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick’s company and appoint final receivers to realise her assets, paving the way for some repayment to the dozens of family and friends who invested with Caddick and are still owed $23.5 million.
Mayfair 101 director James Mawhinney is seeking disciplinary action against ASICâs lawyers over a media release accusing him of breaching a 20-year ban on raising funds and which disclosed the regulator had asked a court to hold him in contempt.
Former Labor MP Craig Thomson has been arrested and charged with reaping more than $2 million from facilitating more than 130 fraudulent visa applications.
A former executive of hospital operator Healthe Care has been sentenced and fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to one charge of insider trading for acquiring a large number of the company’s shares while in possession of inside information regarding plans to acquire a rival hospital operator.
JPMorgan bigwigs who are key witnesses for the prosecution in its cartel case over ANZâs botched share placement in 2015 will be questioned by Citibank and Deutsche ahead of trial.
Former Quantum Resources CEO and director Avrohom Kimelman has been sentenced after being convicted on charges of insider trading and conspiring to manipulate the market in shares of the company, now known as Nova Minerals.
Lawyers for JPMorgan went to the ACCC’s office to review a draft statement of the investment bank’s then managing director Jeffrey Herbert-Smith, an immunity witness for the competition regulator in its troubled criminal cartel case over an ANZ share placement, a court has heard.
An issuer of Gold Coast-based cryptocurrency Qoin may be hit with a class action by investors claiming it is a âtoken of no utilityâ.
In a major blow to the competition regulatorâs high-profile price-fixing case over ANZâs $2.5 billion capital raising, prosecutors have dropped all charges against the bank and its group treasurer, Rick Moscati.
The criminal case brought by Victoria’s new employment watchdog against the NAB should take precedence over the bank’s case, which challenges the Wage Inspectorate’s interpretation of the Fair Work Act and has now dragged NSW into the fray, a court has heard.