‘Cash for the boys’:How underworld figures pulled the strings at ASX-listed company
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‘Cash for the boys’:How underworld figures pulled the strings at ASX-listed company

Earlier this year,technology group Dubber found $26.6 million of its cash reserves was missing. Text messages and a ledger of a gangland lawyer’s trust account allege the money was paid out to an array of colourful characters.

  • bySarah Danckert andCarla Jaeger

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Trading house boss still working in the industry despite guilty plea to criminal charges
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Trading house boss still working in the industry despite guilty plea to criminal charges

Daniel Kirby admitted to offences relating to the collapse of a notorious trading house,but is legally allowed to keep working after the corporate watchdog decided not to ban him.

  • bySarah Danckert
The mud map and escape plan that upended a $500 million fraud
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The mud map and escape plan that upended a $500 million fraud

When businessman Bill Papas fled to Greece,he left behind smoking-gun evidence of his elaborate scheme to defraud bank lenders – and a note that sank his business partner.

  • bySarah Danckert
‘Grimm Reaper of Melbourne stockbroking’ jailed for losing victims’ life savings
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‘Grimm Reaper of Melbourne stockbroking’ jailed for losing victims’ life savings

Bradley Grimm will serve at least nine months behind bars for dishonestly transferring his vulnerable client’s retirement money into the bank accounts of private companies he owned.

  • bySarah Danckert andErin Pearson
The ‘NASA command controller’ and the $50 million of lost crypto
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The ‘NASA command controller’ and the $50 million of lost crypto

Ash Balanian’s investors were told he was a NASA scientist,had a degree from Harvard and their investments would be safe. The Federal Court has since heard that it’s likely that none of those things are true.

  • bySarah Danckert
ASIC’s ‘grave concerns’ over use of investor funds amid sports star payment claims
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ASIC’s ‘grave concerns’ over use of investor funds amid sports star payment claims

Investors in the Shield Master Fund thought they were investing in property and shares. Instead,their money was improperly handled,a Melbourne court has heard.

  • bySarah Danckert
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Former top barrister Norman O’Bryan charged with fraud over class action scheme
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Former top barrister Norman O’Bryan charged with fraud over class action scheme

The former senior counsel,from one of Victoria’s notable legal families,is alleged to have rorted claimants in the Banksia Securities class action scheme out of millions of dollars.

  • bySarah Danckert
Four face jail time over ‘pump and dump’ scam on messaging app
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Four face jail time over ‘pump and dump’ scam on messaging app

Four people face jail time after being criminally charged with operating a “pump and dump” scheme on encrypted messaging app Telegram.

  • byColin Kruger
The fallen tech titan,a suburban gangland lawyer and a $26.6m mystery
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The fallen tech titan,a suburban gangland lawyer and a $26.6m mystery

The corporate watchdog is investigating what happened to $75 million of an ASX-listed company’s cash. At the centre of the investigation are two men – a gangland lawyer and a charming tech executive.

  • bySarah Danckert andCarla Jaeger
Private jets,Ibiza villas and $9000 wines:An epic art fraudster tells all
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Private jets,Ibiza villas and $9000 wines:An epic art fraudster tells all

Inigo Philbrick went to jail for the largest art swindle in US history. But he isn’t losing too much sleep over what he did.

  • byLaura Pullman
‘Ivan the Terrible’:The rise and fall of a notorious Wall Street titan
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‘Ivan the Terrible’:The rise and fall of a notorious Wall Street titan

Ivan Boesky,who rose to fame and fortune before heading to jail,was believed to have been the model for Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko,one of Hollywood’s most memorable villains.

  • byGreg Farrell