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Employers guilty of wage theft face 10 years in jail under new law
Employment 2020-06-17 5:37 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Victorian Labor Government has successfully passed a landmark bill which makes the failure to properly pay workers a criminal offence punishable by up to 10 years in prison for guilty business owners.

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Ex-CFO hit with market manipulation charges
White Collar 2020-06-11 3:51 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The former chief financial officer of delisted traditional therapy clinic company Traditional Therapy Clinics has been charged with multiple counts of market manipulation and fraud for engaging in share transactions designed to create an artificial price for the company’s share price.

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Banned financial advisor Sam Henderson charged over master’s degree claims
Financial Services 2020-06-10 9:14 pm By Christine Caulfield

Former celebrity advisor Sam Henderson, who was slapped with a three-year financial services ban last year after his appearance at the banking royal commission, has been charged with multiple dishonesty offences.

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High Court won’t hear Melco’s challenge to doc production order in Crown inquiry
Securities 2020-06-10 2:48 pm By Christine Caulfield

Hong Kong-based casino group Melco Resorts has lost an application for special leave to the High Court to weigh in on a ruling that a NSW public inquiry into James Packer’s Crown Resorts had the power of a royal commission and could order privileged documents to be handed over.

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Former Sirtex boss released on good behaviour bond after insider trading conviction
White Collar 2020-06-04 9:39 pm By Christine Caulfield

The former CEO and director of biotech company Sirtex Medical was sentenced Thursday to 18 months’ imprisonment for insider trading but was released immediately on a three-year good behaviour bond.

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Criminal charges ‘on the cards’ for WA businessman Chris Marco, court told
White Collar 2020-05-27 9:52 pm By Christine Caulfield

Accepting that criminal proceedings were “on the cards” for accused Ponzi schemer Chris Marco, a judge has ordered the appointment of receivers to his assets and those of his company, AMS Holdings, saying there was a strong need for an independent assessment of the investment activities of the WA businessman.

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Atanaskovic Hartnell loses fee fight with company fleeced by Brody Clarke
Business of Law 2020-05-18 11:35 am By Miklos Bolza

Atanaskovic Hartnell has mostly come up short in a court battle for over $172,000 in legal fees, with a judge finding the law firm was in a “manifest position of conflict” in its dispute with two media companies defrauded by one of its former lawyers, Brody Clarke.

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Pershing pleads guilty to mishandling client funds in first criminal case of its kind
White Collar 2020-05-07 12:05 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Australian arm of global financial solutions provider Pershing faces sentencing after pleading guilty to criminal offences of mishandling client funds.

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ASIC actions lead to jump in criminal charges, millions in fines
ASIC 2020-04-29 9:27 pm By Christine Caulfield

Investigations by ASIC led to prosecutors laying 279 criminal charges in the last six months of 2019, an increase of 300 percent on the previous six months, the corporate watchdog’s latest report reveals.

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Sydney man faces conspiracy charge for alleged role in Plutus tax fraud
Tax 2020-04-21 1:03 pm By Alison Eveleigh

A 33-year-old Sydney man faces a charge of conspiring to defraud the Commonwealth for his alleged role in the Plutus Payroll fraud, a scheme that defrauded the Australian Tax Office of more than $105 million over three years.

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