NAB warns cyber scamming costs farms, small business $4.5m – 20 September 2019

by admin | Sep 20, 2019 | News & Analysis

Farmers and small agribusiness service providers who are not computer savvy are likely to be easy targets for scammers who fake email requests....

The privilege against self-incrimination in regulatory investigations – 20 September 2019

by admin | Sep 20, 2019 | News & Analysis

Paper explains the privilege against self-incrimination in regulatory investigations, the right to silence and application to external/regulatory investigations....

Expansion of Taxable payments reporting system to investigation and surveillance services – 20 September 2019

by admin | Sep 20, 2019 | News & Analysis

Article summarises the new Taxable Payments Reporting obligations applying to businesses providing Road Freight, IT and Security, Investigation and Surveillance services, with the first Taxable Payments Report due on 28th August 2020....

Judge orders liquidators to ‘Diamond Joe’ Gutnick’s mining company – 20 September 2019

by admin | Sep 20, 2019 | News & Analysis

ASIC has appointed provisional liquidators to Merlin Diamonds, due to  suspected illegal conduct surrounding millions of dollars of investor money....

Scammers use fake ‘Twiggy Forrest’ investment to fleece woman out of $670,000 – 18 September 2019

by admin | Sep 18, 2019 | News & Analysis

It has become more common for Scammers to promote fake investment schemes using images of celebrities. In this case the mining entrepreneur Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest was used to steal $670,000 from a Bunbury woman....

The Royal Commission: why it happened, how it all began, and does New Zealand need one? – 18 September 2019

by admin | Sep 18, 2019 | News & Analysis

Article reveals in detail how Adele Ferguson,reporting over several years led to the Royal Commission on Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry....