Ben Butler

Courts

Fine dining serves up $2m fine

Ben Butler Koyo found to have conspired with competitors to fix price of ball bearings in local market.

Courts

Tax fraud accused lodges $5m bail

Ben Butler As Vanda Gould paid his bail, John Leaver and Peter Borgas looked set to spend a night in jail.

Collapse

Lehman creditors win $48m payout

Ben Butler Australian clients of Lehman Brothers may start to receive payouts in April after liquidators struck a deal with the failed investment bank's insurers.

Wickenby

Lawyer lashes out at 'Gestapo unit' in ATO

Ben Butler A lawyer who has worked with three businessmen arrested as part of an Operation Wickenby investigation into tax evasion says the federal government taskforce is a ‘‘Gestapo unit’’ that should be shut...

Courts

CVC arrests a fillip for Tax Office

Ben Butler, Emma Partridge Three men are accused of tax evasion and charged with offences that could see them jailed for up to 25 years.

CBD

Fund and games for the managers

Ben Butler More than 500 hard-working fund managers in charge of our super funds will get together later on Thursday for some back-slapping and friendly ribbing.

CBD

Fund and games for the managers

Ben Butler MMore than 500 hard-working fund managers in charge of our super funds will get together later on Thursday for some back-slapping and friendly ribbing, when they congregate at ASX on Pyrmont (aka...

Tax

Trio charged in $30 million fraud investigation

Ben Butler Police have arrested Australian businessmen Vanda Gould and John Leaver and Belgian national Peter Borgas as part of an Operation Wickenby investigation into $30 million of tax evasion and money...

CBD

Gilchrist goes into battle

Ben Butler Cricket legend Adam Gilchrist is famous for his sense of fair play on the field. So CBD hopes he'll exhibit the same qualities in the courtroom, where he is embroiled in a legal stoush over a company...

CBD

Ginia R nixes trust solution

Ben Butler It seems that McGrathNicol partner Tony McGrath has missed out on what might have been his most controversial assignment.

CBD

Let your cash live the Gai lifestyle

Ben Butler They're a canny clan, the Waterhouse family, as Gai Waterhouse has once again proved with her latest venture.

CBD

Rinehart row fails interest test

Ben Butler The family fight between Her Roy Hill highness and two of her four children has been billed the modern day Dynasty.

CBD

Digging dirt pays off for pollster

Ben Butler He says it's cost $100 million and years of his life, but pollster Gary Morgan has finally struck gold.

Insurance

Watchdog takes iSelect to task

Ben Butler ASIC has demanded the insurance comparison website withdraw or modify an announcement .

CBD

Smooth: writers to work for free

Ben Butler It rakes in $131 million a year in revenue, but apparently Lachlan Murdoch's DMG radio network can't spare a few dollars to pay writers for its station websites.

CBD

Things atremble at Trimble joint

Ben Butler Knickers are in a twist at listed strip club and brothel landlord Planet Platinum, where director-to-be Rob ''The Robot'' Bottazzi has withdrawn his consent to join the company's board.

Court

Doug Shears loses legal battle over Berri sale

Ben Butler Agribusiness czar Doug Shears has lost a legal battle over almost $3.5 million in dividends he claimed to be owed from the sale of Berri to global brewer San Miguel.

CBD

Pescott home in a manor of speaking

Ben Butler Bankrupt former Victorian minister Roger Pescott is a lodger in his old mansion, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has found.

Sports

Bets growth sparks sports integrity fear

Patrick Bartley, Ben Butler Australia’s sports authorities face fresh threats to their battle against race-fixing and match-fixing, with tax haven Vanuatu preparing to license a new wave of offshore bookmakers.