by admin | Nov 16, 2018 | News & Analysis
National Australia Bank chief executive Andrew Thorburn, has been accused of receiving a luxury Fiji holiday and a Thermomix, as a bribe to win millions of dollars of contracts from NAB. Police have been assessing if the NAB contracts awarded to the Human Group, were...
by admin | Nov 16, 2018 | News & Analysis
Four men from Slovenia and the UK, who planned a short stay in Perth, are accused of registering multiple fake businesses, in order to purchase bank-issued EFTPOS machines and carry out $45,000 worth of fraudulent credit card transaction. They now face the prospect of...
by admin | Nov 16, 2018 | News & Analysis
Criminals are using a cloned Australian Taxation Office phone number to convince thousands of people they have been caught evading taxes. The latest scam is so effective that the tax office has placed an automated message on its main switchboard number in Canberra...
by admin | Nov 16, 2018 | News & Analysis
Interesting article about whistleblower laws and and how Australia’s corporate whistleblower framework lags international best practice. It tells how we need people to speak up, so that corporate and tax misconduct can be uncovered early, but that we also need laws...
by admin | Nov 15, 2018 | News & Analysis
Brazen cyber-crooks are selling access to Australian corporate computer networks from $350 to use for mining cryptocurrencies, jeopardising critical business functions and leaching huge amounts of computing power and electricity. Victims do not know they have been...
by admin | Nov 15, 2018 | News & Analysis
Former Hay Shire Council General manager, Allen Dwyer purchased golf equipment, antiques, toys and groceries and made cash advances using corporate credit card. The audit report criticised “material deficiencies” in the accounting records as a possible...