by admin | Jan 28, 2021 | News & Analysis
Michael Pearse and Yongchao Liu have been extradited to the United States from Australia, to face charges over their alleged roles in a scheme to swindle hundreds of thousands of mobile phone users, out of more than 64.6 million. They allegedly used a practice called...
by admin | Jan 27, 2021 | News & Analysis
The federal government has published its previously unreleased report into former Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate’s decision to gift four luxury watches to staff members. The report found that the gifting of the $20,000 watches to employees, did not...
by admin | Jan 27, 2021 | News & Analysis
The Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) said that a man had been detained in The Netherlands, at the request of Interpol, pursuant to an Australian arrest warrant issued in 2019 as part of ‘Operation Volante,’ a seven-year investigation into “a global crime syndicate...
by admin | Jan 27, 2021 | News & Analysis
The long list of luxury gifts a now-jailed Rosemary Rogers (former NAB CEO) received through a 5 year, multimillion-dollar kickback scheme have been detailed in court. They included cash, private jets, a luxury BMW worth $172,000, two boats, a caravan, domestic and...
by admin | Jan 26, 2021 | News & Analysis
An Australian grandfather has been sentenced for his part in an elaborate internet scam which robbed two Devon men of their life savings. The sophisticated money laundering operation involved a bank account in Ghana, promises of repayment through the sale of gold,...
by admin | Jan 25, 2021 | News & Analysis
The Australian finance broker, Union Standard International Group (USG), that sponsors English Premier League team, Sheffield United, allegedly scammed up to $588 million from Chinese investors, who thought they were putting their money in a high yield product that...
