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Australia’s Attacks on the Free Press – 7 June 2019
Human right groups claim the recent raids and warnings to the media are attacks on freedom of the press and an attempt to intimidate both journalists and whistleblowers. Some discussion on how the Government is quietly defending the raids and Australia’s new espionage laws.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/australia-media-freedom-police-raids.html
The Fraud factories – 6 June 2019
Online crime is considered by fraudsters to be highly profitable, with minimal risk of arrest. Evidenced by the fact, than 60,000 scams have been reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch website and more than $35 million in losses has been recorded already in 2019.
Australia targets cryptocurrencies in international tax crackdown – 6 June 2019
Australian tax officials are investigating a dozen transnational high-end tax avoidance schemes detected by the J5 (Joint Chiefs of Global tax Enforcement) The J5 consists of criminal intelligence communities from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States who are committed to collaboration in the fight against international and transnational tax crime and money laundering.
Former bank executive has tax evasion conviction quashed – 6 June 2019
The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal directed that a verdict of ‘acquittal’, be entered for charges of tax evasion and money laundering, for former finance professor and Macquarie bank executive Dr Tony Castagna and accountant Robert Agius. This was mainly because the events took place 10-20 years ago, the men had faced a lengthy trial and had already spent time in jail.
