Fraud and Corporate Crime

• 'Thoroughly dishonest' lawyer jailed after billing client's mother in Legal Aid case

  By Elizabeth Byrne

  Posted March 02, 2017 12:48:26 | Updated March 02, 2017 12:53:15

  A Canberra lawyer "motivated by greed" is given a three-year jail term for charging private fees of more than $25,000 in a Legal Aid case.

  Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia

• Westpac not alone in ASIC's dodgy home loan investigation

  By business reporter Michael Janda

  Posted March 02, 2017 10:22:55 | Updated March 02, 2017 13:54:42

  The corporate regulator says it has been investigating up to 11 lenders over their home lending practices, after announcing court action against Westpac.

  Topics: banking, regulation, housing-industry, courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, australia

• Street Swags founder vows to keep fighting fraud charges

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted February 28, 2017 14:10:33

  Former Young Queenslander of the Year Jean Madden says she will continue fighting charges she misappropriated more than $440,000 from a charity she founded, adding she has "never done a dishonest thing in my life".

  Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, fraud-and-corporate-crime, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000

• Cybercrime victims 'on their own' as police fail to follow up cases

  Lateline

  By Matt Wordsworth

  Posted February 27, 2017 14:41:58 | Updated February 28, 2017 00:33:34

  If you get scammed online it is likely you will never hear from police, let alone see justice done to the culprits, according to the head of Australia and New Zealand's cybercrime helpline.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, fraud-and-corporate-crime, computers-and-technology, australia

• These are the emotional traps to watch out for in scams

  Lateline

  Posted February 27, 2017 14:23:02 | Updated February 27, 2017 17:00:47

  From love bombing and ether states, these are the emotional traps scammers are using against us.

  Topics: crime, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, computers-and-technology, australia

• RSL NSW council stands down amid police investigation

  By Angela Lavoipierre

  Posted February 25, 2017 18:22:02 | Updated February 27, 2017 10:15:12

  The entire RSL NSW council is stood aside from their positions while an investigation over several alleged financial scandals takes place.

  Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, sydney-2000, nsw

• New report finds it's too easy to 'phoenix' companies in Australia

  By Dan Oakes and Sam Clark

  Posted February 24, 2017 16:56:14 | Updated February 24, 2017 17:19:02

  You've probably heard of athletes 'tanking' by deliberately losing a game, but a new report into businesses doing the same thing — referred to as 'phoenixing' — says it's costing the Australian economy billions of dollars a year.

  Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, business-economics-and-finance, australia

• Order of Australia recipient charged with growing cannabis, stealing electricity

  By the National Reporting Team's Dan Oakes and Sam Clark

  Posted February 22, 2017 10:38:53 | Updated February 22, 2017 15:40:21

  Melbourne man Boris Trajkov, lauded for services to the Macedonian community, is charged with serious drugs offences and is being pursued over millions of dollars missing from a charity he helped found.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, drug-offences, charities, crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia

• Bogus death threats at work see man jailed, wife in home detention

  By court reporter Candice Prosser

  Posted February 21, 2017 12:17:03 | Updated February 21, 2017 13:32:45

  Adelaide man Simon Peisley is jailed and his wife given home detention after they concocted death threats, including packages with red-stained children's clothing, at their workplace, the Aboriginal Health Services division of SA Health.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, courts-and-trials, prisons-and-punishment, adelaide-5000, sa

• How 'problem finding' can help corporate boards avoid failures

  RN

  By Ann Arnold for Best Practice

  Posted February 20, 2017 10:45:20 | Updated February 20, 2017 13:29:34

  How can corporate failures be avoided? One consultant says boardrooms need to focus on problem finding, rather than problem solving.

  Topics: business-economics-and-finance, corporate-governance, fraud-and-corporate-crime, management, australia

• Bendigo cycling identity Rik McCaig image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 17, 2017 09:12:01

  Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, cycling, local-government, bendigo-3550, north-bendigo-3550, ballarat-3350, ballarat-north-3350, ballarat-west-3350

• Man accused of stealing from vulnerable, Indigenous people seeks bail to study law

  By Neda Vanovac

  Posted February 16, 2017 19:33:27 | Updated February 16, 2017 21:27:28

  Jackson Anni applies for bail so he can study law after being banned by the ACCC from entering Indigenous communities for "deceptive conduct".

  Topics: courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800

• Bendigo man admits to paying secret commissions to Ballarat council worker

  ABC Ballarat

  By Danny Tran

  Posted February 16, 2017 18:44:52 | Updated February 17, 2017 09:13:35

  A Bendigo man admits to corruptly paying a former Ballarat council worker thousands of dollars in exchange for employment contracts.

  Topics: corruption, crime, fraud-and-corporate-crime, ballarat-3350, north-bendigo-3550, bendigo-3550, ballarat-north-3350, ballarat-west-3350

• 'God can't change sins of the past', conman Peter Foster tells court

  By Elise Kinsella

  Posted February 10, 2017 16:03:41 | Updated February 10, 2017 19:22:05

  Convicted conman Peter Foster pleads for bail on fraud charges over a 2013 betting scam, arguing his life is at risk in custody and admitting to a "shameful" past while insisting he is a changed man.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, southport-4215, byron-bay-2481

• ATO chasing millions from companies linked to controversial adviser

  By the National Reporting Team's Dan Oakes and Sam Clark

  Posted February 10, 2017 13:59:58

  Documents obtained by the ABC show the Australian Tax Office is chasing more than $3.5 million in unpaid tax from companies controlled by a Melbourne-based "pre-insolvency adviser", Philip Whiteman.

  Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, corruption, tax, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia

• Taiwanese pair to be deported over Brisbane slave house scam

  By Louisa Rebgetz and Josh Bavas

  Posted February 08, 2017 15:19:25

  Two Taiwanese men plead guilty to helping run a criminal syndicate using dozens of foreign nationals in Brisbane slave houses as part of a scam targeting China.

  Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, foreign-affairs, courts-and-trials, immigration, brisbane-4000

• 'Friendly fraud': Online refund scam victim relieved after man charged

  7.30

  By consumer affairs reporter Amy Bainbridge

  Posted February 07, 2017 18:09:56 | Updated February 07, 2017 19:55:25

  Small business owner Nick Waterman says he is "really rapt" police have charged a man after an ABC story revealed a credit card refund scam had left his company more than $1,000 out of pocket.

  Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, internet-technology, melbourne-3000

• Former Eels official charged with fraud offences

  Posted February 06, 2017 17:56:42

  Former Parramatta Eels manager Jason Irvine is charged with fraud offences, over the use of alleged false invoices.

  Topics: rugby-league, sport, fraud-and-corporate-crime, courts-and-trials, parramatta-2150, sydney-2000, nsw

• Melbourne man identified in tax evasion investigation still in business

  By the National Reporting Team's Dan Oakes and Sam Clark

  Posted February 06, 2017 15:38:52 | Updated February 07, 2017 10:39:56

  A Melbourne man linked to a multi-million dollar tax avoidance scheme remains in business, despite the fact federal authorities continue to circle him.

  Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, corruption, tax, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia

• Financial planner bought sports car with money stolen from client

  By Edith Bevin

  Posted January 31, 2017 15:19:59

  A former Hobart financial planner funded a lavish lifestyle of overseas travel and expensive real estate with $2.3 million stolen from a client, a court hears.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime

• Ex-Billabong boss jailed for defrauding millions from bank

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 27, 2017 11:28:44 | Updated January 27, 2017 23:56:13

  Former Billabong chief executive Matthew Perrin is sentenced to eight years in jail for fraud over the forging of his then-wife's signature to access more than $13 million from the Commonwealth Bank.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, brisbane-4000, qld

• Real estate agent opens up about widespread underquoting 'lies'

  Exclusive by business reporter Emily Stewart

  Posted January 25, 2017 17:48:16 | Updated January 25, 2017 19:48:59

  More Victorian real estate agents are caught by a taskforce targeting the widespread practice of underquoting property values to entice prospective buyers.

  Topics: housing-industry, consumer-protection, regulation, fraud-and-corporate-crime, australia, vic

• Woman who sent own children fake death threats defended as 'inspirational' parent

  By court reporter Rebecca Opie

  Posted January 23, 2017 13:32:58

  A former SA Health employee who sent her children fake death threats and bloodstained clothing as part of an elaborate scam is described as a "dedicated" and "inspirational" mother in court.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, crime, adelaide-5000, sa, australia

• BHP Billiton and Vale failing Samarco dam disaster victims: UN adviser

  By senior business correspondent Peter Ryan

  Posted January 20, 2017 13:08:29

  The devastating human cost of the Samarco dam disaster in Brazil will not be quickly resolved, despite the prospect of BHP Billiton and Vale settling a multi-billion dollar civil claim, according to a special United Nations adviser.

  Topics: company-news, mining-industry, regulation, multinationals, fraud-and-corporate-crime, brazil, australia

• Tech, investment scams rising in WA, ScamNet figures show

  By Briana Shepherd and Eliza Laschon

  Posted January 18, 2017 18:46:54

  Fewer West Australians fell victim to fraud last year, but a sharp increase in technology and investment losses is causing concern, with those over the age of 55 most vulnerable.

  Topics: consumer-protection, people, fraud-and-corporate-crime, perth-6000, wa

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