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