by admin | Jul 19, 2020 | News & Analysis
Mr Gatto launched legal action in April last year over claims an ABC story had falsely accused him of threatening to kill gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo. However, the Supreme Court of Victoria has ruled that a defamation trial due to start next week between Mr Gatto and...
by admin | Jul 18, 2020 | News & Analysis
The corporate regulator spent almost two years plotting its investigation into Regal Funds Management before it called in the Australian Federal Police to raid the high-profile hedge fund’s office in Sydney....
by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | News & Analysis
A woman who exploited her job as a court registrar to hack into a computer system and issue a false intervention order against a friend’s ex-partner, has been jailed for at least 13 months....
by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | News & Analysis
ASIC has charged businessman and former federal MP Clive Palmer with fraud, relating to two payments worth more than $12m. The fraud and corporate misconduct offences carry lengthy prison sentences and were over the alleged diversion of at least $10m to the benefit of...
by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | News & Analysis
A Twitter breach allowed hackers to tweet a Bitcoin spam message from high profile accounts such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates to all their followers. They posted a double-your-money bitcoin scam, alongside a bitcoin wallet code for people to drop their...
by admin | Jul 16, 2020 | News & Analysis
ASIC is concerned at the number of transactional criminals who can be based anywhere in the world. They are capable of switching off a particular scam quickly, if they discover law enforcement bodies across the globe have discovered it....
