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Judge takes scalpel to Commonwealth Bank class action
Class Actions 2018-05-15 10:00 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The judge overseeing a Maurice Blackburn-led shareholder class action against Commonwealth Bank of Australia over allegedly lax anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing controls has struck out a portion of the statement of claim for “pleading deficiencies”.

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Fraud case against Shane Heal dropped after star witness no-show
White Collar 2018-05-14 10:23 pm By Christine Caulfield

The fraud case against Australian basketball great Shane Heal has been withdrawn after prosecutors’ could not get their US-based star witness to testify in time.

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IT consultant charged with insider trading after ASIC probe
White Collar 2018-05-14 5:07 pm By Christine Caulfield

A Sydney-based IT consultant faces multiple charges of insider trading after illegally accessing stock information from a financial publisher, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission said Monday.

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Ex-CEO of Snowy 2.0 project says warrants in bribery case ‘defective’
White Collar 2018-04-27 10:41 pm By Miklos Bolza

The former CEO of the lead contractor on the Snowy Hydro 2.0 project now facing corruption charges was the target of Australian Federal Police search warrants that were “too broad” to be sufficient, the Federal Court was told on Friday.

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