It’s lunchtime on a clear, warm Gold Coast Saturday in February and the city’s mayor, Tom Tate, is railing against non-Queenslanders who take a dim view of the sunny seaside strip. ”We’re taking our critics head on,” Tate tells the Gold Coast’s business elite – including a gentleman in white shoes – who have gathered… Read More »
By following ”the money trail” a forensic accountant has identified five main transactions made by the family of controversial Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid using the proceeds of $30 million the family received from an allegedly corrupt coal venture. Grant Lockley, a former fraud squad detective who is now a senior forensic accountant with the Independent… Read More »
The ”Bank of Carolyn” closed its doors seven months ago when its manager walked into the Knox Police Station on Burwood Highway in Melbourne’s outer east. Carolyn Hanigan fronted the main counter on July 18 with print outs of payroll records, bank statements and a 12-page spreadsheet titled “stolen”. When the duty officer approached, she… Read More »
When former surf clothing entrepreneur and “Bra Boy” gang member Cade Dallas was found dead in Bali after a drink and drugs binge, nobody close to him was surprised. What was unexpected was the fierce legal battle his death last May unleashed across two countries between Dallas’s mother and his wife (on behalf of their… Read More »
An unemployed truck driver has been named sole heir of the father he never knew existed – a businessman and secret society member – and will inherit his $350,000 estate. He grew up believing he was one of his parent’s three children, but he was really the product of his mother’s torrid affair with a… Read More »
Forensic auditors descended on Cronulla and Manly before the other 14 clubs were alerted to the Australian Rugby League Commission and Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority’s investigation. Auditors from Deloitte arrived at Shark Stadium to review Cronulla’s supplement register on Wednesday afternoon – well ahead of the release of the Australian Crime Commission report at… Read More »
A man was “greedy” for a more lavish lifestyle when he defrauded an indigenous grants organisation of more than $250,000, a court has heard. Mark Anthony Davis, 29, from Nundah, took the money between February 2010 and August 2011 when he was working for the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander College for Health, Education… Read More »
Daniel Nguyen leaves the downing centre court complex after pleading guilty to fraud. A mortgage broker who spruiked his business as an ‘industry award winner’ applied for more than $3 million in home loans for his customers using fake payslips, bank statements and group certificates. But in the end, just one dodgy loan application went… Read More »
Just 42 per cent of job-finding fees claimed by employment agencies were found to be genuine in a top-level audit released yesterday of the $4.7 billion welfare-to-work program. As a result, some Job Services Australia providers – private firms and charities contracted by the government to help the unemployed find work – face the prospect… Read More »
Shire of Kalamunda CEO James Trail has been stood down amid a forensic audit of the shire’s finances. The audit was prompted after questions on contractual arrangements were raised by shire staff. It is expected to be finalised within three weeks. Mr Trail was told of the probe on Friday, and was stood down with… Read More »