Everyone ASIC has ever jailed


August 22, 2008

Is ASIC an effective corporate cop? You be the judge as this is the list of 314 people they have sent to jail since ASIC was set up in January 1991 until 2008.

A chronological snapshot

1991: 6
1992: 8
1993: 13
1994: 10
1995: 24
1996: 16
1997: 22
1998: 22
1999: 21
2000: 31
2001: 18
2002: 22
2003: 15
2004: 28
2005: 17
2006: 17
2007: 16
2008: 13

  1. February 1991 - Laurence Hann: 3 years for obtaining property by deception.
  2. February 1991 - Kin Pin Yiu and Cho Hong Yam: 8 years for conspiracy to defraud investors of $6.4 million.
  3. May 1991 - Ernst Abraham Siewertsz Van Reesman: a year for being a director whilst disqualified.
  4. October 1991 - Joseph Anthony Talia: company director who for 2 years offered debentures without a prospectus or deed.
  5. December 1991 - Edward Hunter Heslop: a former Sydney company director who received 5 years on nine counts of cheating and defrauding (JLS Services p/l).
  6. December 1991 - Thomas William Skelly: a former licensed investment adviser who received 3 years on 19 charges of obtaining property by deception.
  7. February 1992 - David James Moffat: former stockbroker and investment adviser with Byron Moore Journeaux, received 1 year for theft.
  8. May 1992 - Robert Gordon Neilson: former Melbourne self-employed investment consultant received 2 years on three charges of theft and four charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception.
  9. June 1992 - Bernt Berentsen and Andrew Peter Anderton: a former director and a former general manager of Lombard Nash (International), they received 2 years periodic detention for fraud.
  10. June 1992 - Phillip John Law: former director of CIC Insurance who received 4 years on 24 charges of fraud and cheating.
  11. July 1992 - Alan Reginald Worts: former Geelong financial adviser who received 3.5 years on 20 counts of theft amounting to $565,000.
  12. September 1992 - Ernst Van Reesema: disqualified Adelaide company director put away for 11 months for being a company director whilst disqualified.
  13. September 1992 - Robin Sarah Greenburg: a former MD of Perth-based Western Women Financial Services received 17 years gaol on two counts of stealing, 45 counts of misusing her position as a director, one count of failing to supply records, one count of destroying records, one count of arson contrary to the bush fires act (WA).
  14. December 1992 - Nigel Peter Smith: a solicitor who received 18 months for being knowingly concerned in the commission of an offence by David Paul Howe, a director of Farndale P/L.
  15. March 1993 - Terrence Keith Burke: four months for concealing company books in Launceston.
  16. May 1993 - Martin Desmond Mullins: former director of Falcon Australia Ltd, Mullins Investment P/L and Minefield Exploration NL who was gaoled for 30 months on two counts of procuring execution of valuable securities.
  17. June 1993 - Michael Joseph Veigli: former Adelaide investment adviser who received 2 years for 27 charges of issuing applications to subscribed for shares in Investors Equity Group Ltd without a registered prospectus.
  18. June 1993 - Jack Newman: former Adelaide director of Sy-Quest International Ltd received 1 year on 10 charges relating to breaches of the prospectus provisions
  19. June 1993 - Gordon Arthur Filmer: former director received 18 months on 10 charges of managing the affairs of Affordable Funerals whilst disqualified.
  20. 24 June 1993 - David John Gibson: a former Melbourne investment adviser received 12 years on 51 charges of deception, forgery and making a false document over $7 million.
  21. August 1993 - Russell John Delaney: Melbourne man received 2 months for misleading statements and gaining a financial advantage by deception.
  22. September 1993 - Gavin John Anderson: Melbourne investment adviser received 6 years on 6 counts of theft from a quadriplegic he was to manage money for.
  23. September 1993 - Terrence John Hasler: former Hobart building company director received 9 months on charges of making improper use of his position as director to gain advantage.
  24. November 1993 - Richard Lew and his father Reubin Lew: former managing director of Estate Mortgage Ltd who received 3 years and 2 years respectively for breaches of directors duties, Richard Lew was also ordered to pay $50,000 to the trustees of Meridian Investment Trust.
  25. November 1993 - Anthony Bird Burgess: former Melbourne investment adviser received 40 months on six charges of theft from his clients worth $500,000.
  26. December 1993 - Vincenzo Salvatore Todaro: a former operator of La Tenda restaurant and night club in Perth, received 1 year for improperly using his position as an officer of D B De Bartolomeis Aust to gain advantage.
  27. December 1993 - Gilheasboig Kerr Mackie: former director of Queensland based Chemex Chemicals P/L received 6 months for making improper use of position as a director.
  28. January 1994 - George Karounos: a former Adelaide company director who received 2.5 years for conspiracy to defraud.
  29. March 1994 - Grahame Douglas McDougall: Brisbane businessman who received 3 years for misappropriation of property worth $57,000.
  30. May 1994 - Dale Leigh Pedersen: former Melbourne Director gaoled for 2 years obtaining property by deception, making false entries and failing to act honestly (SVO Limousines).
  31. June 1994 - Peter Reuben Schnieder: former accountant with AP Consolidated Pty Ltd 4 years on six charges including falsification of books, theft to the value of $1.1 million and four counts of obtaining financial advantage
  32. July 1994 - Barry Kevin Edgecombe: bankrupt Adelaide accountant and auditor 18 months for improper use of his position as secretary of R&W Investments.
  33. July 1994 - Gerhard Joseph Cole: former director of Australian Carbon Ltd gaoled for 1 year on 19 charges including providing false information to the ASX and making improper use of his position as a director at Australian Carbon.
  34. August 1994 - Paul Henry Baldwin: former director of failed company National Associated Plywood Pty Ltd received 9 months periodic detention and 200 hours community service on 21 counts of falsification of company stock records and failing to act honestly.
  35. October 1994 - David Stuart Woolgrove: Adelaide forestry scheme promoter who received 2 years on 16 counts of breaching the Corporations Law by offering invitations to purchase alleged prescribed interests (Forestry Management Pty Ltd)
  36. October 1994 - John Bannerman: former director of Convention Planners Pty Ltd Christopher gaoled for 8 months for making improper use of position as director.
  37. December 2 1994 - Con Barris: a West Australian director who received 4 years for illegally authorising payments of $274,000 to his private company.
  38. January 16 1995 - Kanwal Nain Singh: Brisbane businessman received 6 months for forgery.
  39. February 21 1995 - Kanwal Nain Singh: further 6 weeks for managing a corporation whilst undischarged bankrupt and convicted person.
  40. May 4 1995 - Peter Dimitri: former Sydney director 1 month for illegally inviting the public to subscribe for shares in Gemboree Pty Ltd.
  41. Friday 5 May 1995 - Peter Francis Peck: unlicensed futures trader gaoled for 3.5 years futures trading.
  42. 12 May 1995 - David Callaghan and Leigh Grant: Melbourne company directors received 8 and 5 years respectively for stealing more than $9 million from MMI Insurance and overseas investors.
  43. May 15 1995 - Geoffrey Puttick: 2 years for improperly using his position as a director to deposit $100,000 of company funds into private company.
  44. 17 May 1995 - Douglas Miller, Alan Rose and Arthur Murphy: of Equity Management Corporation, were sentenced to 18, 18 and 12 months respectively.
  45. June 1995 Jaimie Craven: an associate of Brian Yuill in the Spedley group of companies was gaoled initially for 6 months for contempt and then 6 months for breach of directors duties.
  46. June 26 1995 - David Towey: managing director of Growth Industries Management received 16 months for misleading company auditors and using his position to obtain a $700,000 personal benefit.
  47. South Australian Garry William Lovering: 18 months and 25 months on charges of improperly using his position as a director of GIM.
  48. July 27 1995 - Desley Dawn Smith: 9 months for falsifying company records on wages and tax instalments.
  49. August 1995 - Anthony Whittall: a company director who was gaoled for 18 months after extradition from NZ on charges of misusing his position to gain a personal advantage. Ordered to pay $693,000 compo to receiver.
  50. August 1995 - John Becroft Allison: 2 years for managing Valdaze Pty Ltd and Solidoor Pty Ltd when undischarged bankrupt.
  51. August 1995 - James Crowl: an accountant who received 4 years for a $900,000 fraud.
  52. September 1995 - Garry Carter: of Entity Group 4 years.
  53. September 1995 - Equity Minerals' Simon Lill, Michael Bibby and Brian Welch: 18 months each.
  54. October 1995 - in Perth, MD Paper Products Pty Ltd, Coomaraswamy Sivandran: 3 years for stealing $524,200.
  55. October 1995 - Robert Brian Dawson: 9 months for managing Coffsgate Industrial Estate whilst an insolvent under administration.
  56. November 1995 - Stockbroker and former manager of the Perth Stock Exchange, Harold Christensen: 2 years for share price manipulation;
  57. November 1995 - Sydney businessman George Adler: 6 months for managing companies whilst disqualified. Previously served 18 months for cheating and defrauding a company.
  58. December 1995 - Direct Acceptance Corporation's Ray Lord and John Riordan: 2.5 years each.
  59. December 1995 - Michael Bibby: 1 year on charges arising from his role as a director of Cityscape Limited;
  60. December 1995 - Former MD of Spedley Securities Ltd, Brian Yuill: additional 2.5 years. Already serving two separate terms of three years and nine months, and 2.5 years, for breaching director's duties.
  61. December 1995 - in Tasmania, Helen Bartley: 3.66 years for stealing and falsifying company books;
  62. March 1996 - Micheal Wayne Childs: 9 months for managing two WA companies whilst disqualified.
  63. May 1996 - Gavin Keith Hyland: 4.5 years on charges relating to false pretences and wilful false promise contrary to the Queensland Criminal Code.
  64. May 15 1996 - Robert Alan Hodge: 2 years for misusing position as director of General Investments Australia Limited to obtain almost $6 million for his private company.
  65. May 20 1996 - year Robin Andrew Buckley: 30 days for contempt of court after failed to repay $1.8m to investors who had trusted him with FX investments.
  66. June 14 1996 - Paul Ferguson Fitzsimmons: 2 years for his part in the Kia Ora reverse takeover transaction (Duke Group).
  67. August 20 1996 - Alan Bond: 3 years for his part in the sale of Edouard Manet's painting La Promenade from Bond Corp to his private company Dallhold Investments.
  68. August 28 1996 - Gavin Keith Hyland: 3 months for managing a company whilst an undischarged bankrupt and 9 months for dishonest misappropriation and concealment and alternation of books.
  69. September 20 1996 - former Perth investment adviser Arden Rodrick Wittensleger: 4 years on 46 counts of stealing associated with his company Astute Financial Group Pty Ltd.
  70. September 20 1996 - Victor Warren Ollis: 6 months for managing 3 companies while a prohibited person.
  71. October 2 1996 - Neil MacKenzie-Forbes was gaoled for four years with parole to be considered after nine months for his part in the Queen St Press directors fraudulently obtaining $1.07 million from financial institutions.
  72. October 4 1996 - PR man Murray Evan Williams: 18 months periodic detention and fined $50,000 following insider trading charges in relation to the purchase of shares in Australis Media.
  73. October 16 1996 - Darwin building company director Phillip Kenneth Johnston: 3 months for managing a number of companies within five years of being convicted of serious fraud.
  74. November 7 1996 - Mt Gambier businessman James Patrick Gollan: 6 months for managing Constats Australia Pty Ltd whilst an undischarged bankrupt.
  75. November 15 1996 - Peter Clarence Foster: 3 terms of 18 months on charges of attempting to induce witnesses in a judicial proceeding to give false testimony. Plus 2 months under the Commonwealth Crimes Act relating to his entry into Australia.
  76. 20 November 1996 - Two former directors of Queen Street Press, Marguerite Ruth Woods and John Stephen Woods: four years on 34 charges of false pretences.
  77. 16 December 1996 - Brisbane Businessman Christopher Bruce Smith: 4 years on on 19 charges relating to his company Medalion Homes. Charges included one breach of the Bankruptcy Act, 13 counts of false pretences and one count of failing to answer a question during an ASC examination.
  78. 24 January 1997 - Tasmanian businessman Marion Wojcik: 18 months on 68 ASC charges of being knowingly concerned in a company (Exclusive Marketing) intending to defraud Woolworths.
  79. 31 January 1997 - Former Adelaide financial controller Terry John Swanton: 6 years on two separate sets of charges brought by the ASC and the SA Police.
  80. 5 February 1997 - Former Perth businessman Alan Bond: 4 years on charges relating to use of $1.2 billion in Bell Resources Ltd funds. The sentence was cumulative on the 3 year La Promenade matter.
  81. 11 February 1997 - Former bankrupt Richard Anthony Stephen Kontos: 3 years on 13 charges for managing 4 companies whilst a declared bankrupt.
  82. 17 February 1997 - Former NSW car yard owner Tom Lesic: 12 months for being involved in a company whilst an undischarged bankrupt.
  83. 7 March 1997 - Former Cairns company director and auditor Ronald Campbell Richardson: 12 months for a false audit report.
  84. April 1997 - Stephen Thomas Goodwin: 3 months periodic detention for managing Country Manor Frozen Foods Pty Ltd whilst an undischarged bankrupt.
  85. April 1997 - John Stewart Corner: 18 months periodic detention and fined $23,000 on three Companies Code charges.
  86. April 1997 - Maxwell John Reid: six months for promoting South Australian Opal Mining Pty Ltd and Australian Opal House Pty Ltd when he was banned from being involved in any company until the year 2036 AD.
  87. April 1997 - Christopher John Bannerman: one month for making improper use of his position as a director of Convention Planners Ltd.
  88. 2 May 1997 - Peter Mitchell: 4 years for $1.4 billion cash strip of Bell Resources by Bond Corp.
  89. 9 May 1997 - Rong Xiong Fan: 9 months from Brisbane Magistrate for making improper use of his position of director of Thorlon Pty Ltd.
  90. 15 August 1997 - Steven Antonio La Rosa: Banned Perth securities adviser got 4 years for obtaining $1.8 million from investors which went overseas in breach of the prescribed interest provisions of the law.
  91. 28 August 1997 - Ryszard Zawadski: former Hobart financial adviser got 8 months for defrauding 83yo of $83,500 which he then used partly for gambling.
  92. 17 September 1997 - Reginal Robert Eustace: former Vic accountant got 3 years for stealing money from companies he worked for including Kuwait Asian Bank EC.
  93. 19 September 1997 - Anthony Mark Gibson: former Woolies employee got 18 months for obtaining secret commissions from Exclusive Marketing P/L - depriving Woolworths of the fees.
  94. 23 October 1997 - Peter Dimitri: 8 months for managing companies whilst an undischarged bankrupt. He promoted a worldwide pool comp and attracted $260,000 to the failed scheme.
  95. 3 November 1997 - Kelvin Philip Andrews: former Queensland trustee got 18 months for forgery and misappropriation.
  96. 27 November 1997 - Sean Patrick MacNamara: former Gold Coast director got 12 months.
  97. 2 December 1997 - Douglas Edward Reid, former Southern Cross Holdings Deputy Chairman got 8 years for false accounting, theft, obtaining property by deception, making false documents, falsifying the books of the company and failing to act honestly as a director and furnishing false information
  98. 19 December 1997 - Daryl Fredrick Bledsoe: two years for misappropriating property.
  99. 22 December 1997 - Peter Manery Spies: 18 months periodic detention for defrauding Australian Duty Free Operators Ltd creditors of $500,000.
  100. 16 January 1998 - Russell John Goward: Former Westmex boss got two years for making false and misleading statements in a press statement in December 1989.
  101. 11 February 1998 - Greig Ronald Heilbronn: 2 years for dishonest conduct as a director of Vesofe Ltd which operated a computer sales business trading under the name of Dataquip or Dataquip Wholesale.
  102. 9 March 1998 - Philip Leonard Andrews: four years for removing $300,000 from a trust account without authorisation.
  103. 23 March 1998 - Alan Nichols: 15 months for deliberately refraining from recording all cash income of Tasmanian Cleaning Services which traded as Tasmanian Carpet Cleaning.
  104. 23 March 1998 - Jane Wilson: 12 months for aiding and abetting Alan Nichols of Tasmanian Cleaning Services.
  105. 31 March 1998 - Melbourne accountant John Robert McNabb: 14 months for trading whilst insolvent. Obtained $5 million in funds over 5 years from more than 300 people seeking to invest their money in McNabb's company Syndal.
  106. 1 April 1998 - William Henry Hann: Adelaide lad got 4.5 years for fraudulently converting $422,909 for his own use from the proceeds of car sales from the company Kearns Brothers.
  107. 18 May 1998 - Robert Lloyd Lewis: Brisbane District Court gave 4.5 years for misappropriating $225,000 from 12 investors.
  108. 18 May 1998 - Megan Elizabeth Bauer: 18 months for being instrumental in Robert Lloyd Lewis misappropriating $225,000 from 12 investors.
  109. 26 May 1998 - Bruce Algernon Norman: Tasmanian got 4 months for 19 charges of falsifying company books and failing to act honestly as a director.
  110. 19 June 1998 - Civil engineer Norman Ross Uren: 18 months for improperly using position at Lend Lease's Civil and Civic to gain an advantage for Security Corporation Pty Ltd.
  111. 19 June 1998 - Michael Robert Shearer: 18 months for market manipulation of Reef Mining Ltd over two weeks involving 1.2m shares using fictitious names.
  112. 23 June 1998 - Samuel John Papotto: Perth lad got 6 months for managing a company while disqualified.
  113. 17 July 1998 - Errol John White: Gold Coast financial adviser got 8 weeks for contempt for failing to comply with statutory notices issued by ASIC during its investigation into coastal Asset Management Corporation.
  114. 29 July 1998 - Rolf John Schreuder: three years for this former director of Transequity Limited from the Launceston Magistrates Court for taking $6.8 million from Transequity's bank account.
  115. 10 August 1998 - Robert David Lavigne: bankrupt Sydney businessman got 24 weeks for managing a company whilst an insolvent.
  116. 31 August 1998 - Cyril John Pearson: former Brisbane company director got 5 years for fraudulently accounting for money, which was put into the Beneflex Retirement Plan superannuation fund.
  117. 16 September 1998 - Peter Laurence Cox: Crow Eater got 3.1 years on 55 chargers of improperly using his position as a director of a Travel Agency company.
  118. 2 October 1998 - Bevan Maurice Crowley: former MD of Media Asia Pacific got 2 years for market manipulation after told market directors had revised profit forecast up to $4.5m when hadn't.
  119. 23 October 1998 - Katy Rachelle Boskovitz: Abe Goldberg's finance director at Linter Group got 5 years on three charges of obtaining $50m from Bank of Tokyo, Westpac and Chase AMP on false statements.
  120. 11 November 1998 - Karl William Brooks: former director of Queensland companies Mistoil and Richcat got 1 year for false pretence and trickery totalling $53,000 concerning One Mile Mine mining lease.
  121. 19 November 1998 - Robin Andrew Buckley: 8 years for financial advantage by deception and the making of offers for subscription of a prescribed interest.
  122. 27 January 1999 - Peter Gerard Jackman: 18 months for this former Queensland investment adviser.
  123. 28 January 1999 - Rolf John Schreuder: former director of Transequity Ltd got 4 months for being involved when banned.
  124. 29 January 1999 - George Adler: six years for obtaining money by deception.
  125. 12 February 1999 - Paul Stanton (aka Paul Almerino Cavaliere): Gold Coast builder got 3 years for transferring more than $326,000 from the accounts of Cavaliere Constructions into his personal bank account after he had a trustee in bankruptcy appointed to him.
  126. 26 February 1999 - Kevin John Lord: former director of furniture wholesaler Keith Lord Wholesale got 18 months for misappropriating between $266,000 and $566,000 after the company had been placed in liquidation.
  127. 22 March 1999 - John Robert Houghton: former director of NSW company Houghton and Associates got two years for fraudulently applying $1.3m from wholesale superannuation investment pools for his own benefit.
  128. 1 April 1999 - Michael James Giovinazzo: 4 years for fraudulently obtaining $235,000 from investors.
  129. 9 April 1999 - Melissa Wendy Norman: 18 months for misappropriating $240,996 from Kerdale Pty Ltd where she was a director.
  130. 21 April 1999 - Dean Russell Anderson: 3 months for managing Australian Home Marketing Pty Ltd while an undischarged bankrupt.
  131. 19 May 1999 - Roland Kerkmez: 6 months for managing Videoland Pty Ltd while banned from doing so.
  132. 3 June 1999 - David Anthony Bradshaw: former Melbourne liquidator and auditor got 18 months for stealing money from Mariemont Investments Pty Ltd of which he was the registered liquidator.
  133. 4 June 1999 - Sandra Joyce Stephens: former Tassie investment adviser got 4 years for stealing and cheating.
  134. 18 June 1999 - Stuart John Forsythe: Newcastle investment adviser got 6 years for misappropriation and forgery charges involving $1.4 million with elderly clients over 7 years.
  135. 21 June 1999 - Allan McDonald Healy: 5 years for dishonestly obtaining $3 million from clients of failed Victorian financial services group Sentinel.
  136. 17 September 1999 - Simon Gautier Hannes: executive director of Macquarie Bank got 2.1 years for insider trading on $2m of TNT securities and structuring withdrawals to avoid the reporting requirements under the Financial Transactions Act.
  137. 12 October 1999 - Bruce Lockwood Vague: 3.5 years for stealing $242,596.35 from a client's trust account while a director, shareholder and principal of former licensed financial adviser and securities dealer Hutcherson Denny Investment Services Pty Ltd.
  138. 14 October 1999 - Andrew John Smith: 3 years for misappropriating $156,000 in his position as a director of Afcan Group International.
  139. 20 October 1999 - Leon Gregory Kaine: director of North West Computers Software Pty Ltd got 8 months for obtaining goods for false pretences and being knowingly concerned with a company acting for a fraudulent purpose.
  140. 6 December 1999 - Donald Richard Maxwell: 1 year periodic detention for obtaining a financial advantage by deception and offering securities without a prospectus.
  141. 7 December 1999 - Anthony James Fitzwater: 4 years after misappropriating $180,000 from an insurance bond belonging to a long-standing client.
  142. 15 December 1999 - Michael James Camilleri: Melbourne investment adviser got 2.5 years after stealing $346,022 from six clients and a number of personal superannuation funds.
  143. 11 January 2000 - Blacktown chef Frederick John Hallagan: 3 months for managing a company while banned from doing so. His company, Cuspinban Investments Pty Ltd ceased trading with debts of $180,000.
  144. 21 January 2000 - Former Eastwood investment adviser Larry Douglas Westwood: 2 years for misappropriating $114,000 from four investors.
  145. 4 February 2000 - Robert James MacLeod: director of Trainex Pty Ltd and Starlight Film Studios Ltd and got 7 years for offering prescribed interest without a prospectus in tax effective film schemes and five charges relating to fraud of $1.3 million.
  146. 3 March 2000 - David Allison Bennell: 2.2 years for stealing more than $180,000 from Osben Pty Ltd, of which he was the company secretary.
  147. 31 March 2000 - Michael Wayne Childs: 3.4 years for stealing $125,000 from the Sound City Church, Assembly of God while acting as a financial adviser to the Church.
  148. 11 April 2000 - Brothers, jewellers and prohibited company directors Ashur and Hammurabi Barhy: 5 months periodic detention each for managing a company while a bankrupt and within five years of being convicted of serious fraud.
  149. 26 April 2000 - Former MD of Australian Investment Advisers Ltd, Maxwell Vardanega: 5 years for 17 counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception, charges which involved more than $1.4 million of lenders' funds.
  150. 26 April 2000 - Andrew Michael Szumylo: 7 years for 58 criminal charges relating to his conduct as the secretary of an Adelaide company whose name has been suppressed.
  151. 3 May 2000 - Former Melbourne financial adviser Colin Frederick Quarrell: 5 years for dishonestly obtaining $4 million from clients of the failed Victorian financial services group Sentinel.
  152. 4 May 2000 - Stephen Lewis Matthews: 3 months for contempt for the former publisher of The Chimes website.
  153. 5 May 2000 - William Richard Tooth: 5.2 years for 8 counts of financial advantage by deception.
  154. 8 May 2000 - Phillip Stephen O'Leary, formerly a Melbourne investment adviser: 18 months for 8 counts of theft from clients totalling $130,000.
  155. 11 May 2000 - Anastasis Darcy Papas: 10 years on 66 charges of stealing and fraud involving a total of $703,000 through Acclaim Financial Services which held a proper authority from AMP.
  156. 15 May 2000 - Milan Izidor Tusek: 2.5 years for this bankrupt former Queensland property developer on fraud charges.
  157. 19 May 2000 - Paul William Wilhelm: 5 years for this Sand Groper on 15 fraud counts.
  158. 4 July 2000 - Christopher Martyn Matson: 12 months from the Launceston Court of Petty Sessions.
  159. 7 July 2000 - Former Melbourne company director Michael Taylor: 2 years for improperly using his position as a director of Creative Yarns P/L to misappropriated over $380,000 to support a gambling addiction.
  160. 11 July 2000 - Charles William Swinton: 3 years for this former Sydney investment adviser for fraud and misappropriating $281,088 from three clients.
  161. 21 July 2000 - Royce Charlett: 3 months for carrying on the business of an insurance broker whilst unregistered, and making false and misleading statements under the Insurance Act.
  162. 11 September 2000 - John Andrew McPhee: 4.5 years for this former director of McPhee Meat Packing Pty Ltd on theft of $250,324 and making false accounting records involving company funds of $643,613.
  163. 11 September 2000 - George Balos: NSW District Court gave him 11 years on 46 fraud charges relating to $2.2 million he raised through an illegal investment scheme.
  164. 12 October 2000 - Karl William Brooks: 3 months for managing Brisbane company CB Environmental Barrier Paints while prohibited.
  165. 13 October 2000 - Frank Pugliese: 5 years on 10 fraud charges for defrauding 8 investors involved with FMI Asia Pacific Pty Ltd and ITEC Holdings Pty Ltd of $625,000.
  166. 20 October 2000 - Brian Peter Dodd, a former manager and futures adviser at the Brisbane office of Ord Minnett in Queensland: 18 months for six charges of using his position to make profits totalling $473, 933 in fake names.
  167. 30 October 2000 - Steven George Hourmozis: 2 years for spamming and hitting email bulletin boards to ramp stocks.
  168. 3 November 2000 - Noel Andrew Bell: 2.8 years for 24 charges of illegally raising $2.8m funds from investors without a prospectus.
  169. 24 November 2000 - George Adler: 4 years on charges of obtaining money by deception which commences when current sentence expires on 31 May 2002 (see no. 125).
  170. 11 December 2000 - Donald Clarke: 9 years for 14 charges of misappropriating funds from investors for debt factoring for other purposes
  171. December 2000 - Christopher Bruce Smith: 2 years for defrauding a pensioner of $119,400.
  172. 15 December 2000 - Ross Patrick Zagari: 3.5 years for illegally redeeming more than $2.4 million of clients' superannuation and defrauding the Commissioner of taxation of $33,288.
  173. 21 December 2000 - John Murray Murnane: 3 months for theft, being an unregistered insurance broker, operating a business when bankrupt and breaching a condition of a suspended sentence.
  174. 20 March 2001 - John Laurence Skinner: 4.5 years for defrauding investors of $259,000 by misappropriating subscriptions for two well-publicised public share offers in late 1996 and early 1997.
  175. 20 March 2001 -Denis Joseph Wallace: 4 years for defrauding investors of $182 000 by misappropriating subscriptions for two well-publicised public share offers in late 1996 and early 1997.
  176. 8 May 2001 - Geoffrey Robert Dexter: 10 years on multiple fraud charges over Wattle Group scheme in which 2700 people invested over $160 million dollars on promises of 50 per cent returns.
  177. 25 May 2001 - Robyn Ann-Carrolle Cochrane, a Central Coast investment adviser: 4 years for 29 fraud charges.
  178. 10 July 2001 - Robyn Ann-Carolle Cochrane- further 6 months, to be served concurrently, for acting as an investment advisor without a license.
  179. 25 May 2001 - Damien Parkes- 5 years for seven fraud charges relating to his involvement with the Nambucca Group of companies.
  180. 22 June 2001 - Wayne Christopher McNamara, former financial advisor of Rostrevor SA: 2 years for defrauding a client of securities worth $65,083, and converting a client's cheque of $10,375 for his own benefit.
  181. 25 June 2001 - Mark Stuart Crosling, former director of Excelsior Run: 2 years for acting dishonestly and improperly using his position to gain a benefit- he drew cheques totalling $675,000 from the company in July 1998 for his own use.
  182. 27 June 2001 - George Cormack, a former financial adviser trading as Australian Moneymasters: 4 years and 9 months jail for obtaining property by deception involving $195,036.
  183. 6 July 2001 - former director of Lateral Trading Ltd, James Bernard McDonell: 5 years for his action as an unlisted public company that traded in futures contracts and options over futures.
  184. 6 July 2001 - Ian Thomas Campbell Westcott: 3 years for his action as a former director of Lateral Trading Ltd. He also pleaded guilty to misappropriating $1.46 million and the theft of $50,000 of KBF Finance Ltd funds.
  185. 6 July 2001 - Darren Kingsley Brown: 2.5 years for his action as a former director of Lateral Trading Ltd. He also pleaded guilty to misappropriating $1.46 million.
  186. 19 July 2001 - Sean Anthony Seeto, a former stockbroker with Hartley Poynton JDV: 3.5 years jail. He pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud involving $298,000 as well as applying $68,000 of client funds for his own use.
  187. 16 July 2001 - Former director of Mancross PL, Andrew Kenneth Nuske: 7 years jail. He pleaded guilty to 28 charges of obtaining $647,000 by misappropriation, false pretences and forgery from Andrews Corporation PL and a number of mortgage applicants.
  188. 27 July 2001 - Stephen Mark O'Neill, a former company director from South Yarra: 5 years jail, he pleaded guilty to charges of theft, using false documents, and improperly using his position as a director to gain an advantage for himself.
  189. 28 September 2001 - Kevin Anthony Gaw: 2 years and four months' for his part in promoting a series of horse-race betting schemes. He pleaded guilty to four charges of operating an unregistered managed investment scheme and four charges of inducing others to invest in securities by making false and misleading statements.
  190. 16 November 2001 - Kerry John Burked: 10 years jail, with a non-parole period of 7 years after pleading guilty to 50 charges relating to the misuse of more than $5.4 million of client funds.
  191. 16 November 2001 - Leonard Jon Smith: 7 years jail after being found guilty on 22 charges involving intentional fraud of $870,000.
  192. 25 February 2002 - Julian Kok Chee Lee: 2.5 years, pleadrd guilty to 14 charges of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception.
  193. 15 March 2002 - Raymond Strano: sentenced to 8 years, for his part in the British Marine Bank scam perpetrated by George Balos. He was convicted on 17 charges of fraud involving approximately $973,024.
  194. 22 April 2002 - Alejandro Arisitides Romano, officer of Pearl Group International: 2 years jail, pleaded guilty to one charge of failing to act honestly.
  195. 22 April 2002 - Anibal Nicholas Romano (Nicholas Hannibal), officer of Pearl Group International: 20 months jail. He pleaded guilty to one charge of failing to act honestly.
  196. 24 April 2002 - James Robb, former director of the Berwick Brae Retirement Village: 16 months jail, for failing to refund licence fees totalling $766,463 to a number of deceased estates. He gambled much of the money at Crown Casino.
  197. 29 May 2002 - Ian Robert Frost, DJF Pty Lty: 3 years for 12 charges of fraud, whereby his company obtained finance of more than $1.5 million.
  198. 24 June 2002 - Dennis Charter, director of Kiss Corporation: 18 months jail for improperly diverting a cheque for $402,500.
  199. 26 June 2002 - former Chief Financial Officer of Harris Scarfe Holdings ltd, Alan Hodgson: 6 years jail for 32 charges.
  200. 24 July 2002 - John Phillip Gorcilov: 2 years for fraud charges.
  201. 24 July 2002 - Michael Frank Simich: 6 years jail. Mr Simich had his sentenced reduced for agreeing to past and future cooperation. He pleaded guilty to 50 charges of fraudulently obtaining funds from investors, and 2 charges of stealing funds from investors.
  202. 12 August 2002 - Joachim Prehn, a former Burnie-based financial and insurance adviser: 6 years jail for 28 counts of fraud.
  203. 12 August 2002 - Paul Grant Stuart: 1 year after being found guilty of defrauding two investors of $35,500.
  204. 6 September 2002 - Michael Roussi (also known as Misagh Roussi): 2 years of periodic detention for 2 charges improperly using his position as a director to gain an advantage for his wife, Rita Rohani.
  205. 13 September 2002 - John Charles Freeman, a director of Freeman Hall Investment Services PL and Bankswood Developments PL: 2 years for two charges of failing to act honestly as an officer.
  206. 4 October 2002 - Anthony Eustace Seneseformer director of E C Consolidated Capital Limited: 7 years for 2 counts of theft totalling in excess of $5.4m, and 25 counts of flase accounting.
  207. 14 October 2002 - Jon Melville McKenney, former managing director of the Lifestyle property group: 4 years jail for 15 charges including failing to act honestly, improper use of his position.
  208. 14 October 2002 - John Lloyd Caust, former employee of the Lifestyle Property Group: 2 years for seven charges relating to improper and dishonest use of his position as an employee.
  209. 16 October 2002 - Damien Parkes: 12 months for misusing $162,500 to buy a house in Vaucluse.
  210. October 2002 - Douglas Gordon Johnston: 4 years, for 26 charges, 19 related to him obtaining $843,416 from clients.
  211. 22 November 2002 - a former AMP financial adviser, Laurence John Tobin: 2 years for obtaining $314,000 from investors for investment in a scheme called the Twinelles Mortgage Reserve Fund.
  212. 13 December 2002 - Simon Gautier Hannes: 2.5 years for insider trading charges to the value of $2 million in the securities of TNT Limited.
  213. 18 December 2002 - James Gordon Kearns: 6 years for on nine counts of fraud.
  214. 13 February 2003 - Harunobu Fukusato: 4 years jail, suspended after 12 months, for failing to act honestly with intent to deceive a creditor. He was also sentenced to 18 months imprisonment on each of two counts of enabling or aiding the commission of forgery offences, one count of forgery and one count of uttering a forged document. These sentences were made concurrent to the original sentence, to be suspended after six months.
  215. 2 April 2003 - Randall John McFie: 2 years (suspended after 6 months) on a charge of attempted fraud.
  216. 4 April 2003 - Peter Robert Neilson: 15 months (to be released after serving 10 months) ASIC alleged that he received insurance premiums clients, but did not pass these funds on to the insurance companies within the required 37 days.
  217. 28 April 2003 - Darryl John McGuire: 3 years (to be released after 12 months) pleaded guilty to 7 charges of fraudulently inducing a person to deal in securities. He caused BT Funds Management Ltd to redeem units valued at $206,950, when he only had authority to redeem part of this amount.
  218. 6 May 2003 - Stephen John Taylor: 1 year for taking over $535,000 from investors in property development projects he promoted without a prospectus. Some investors mortgaged their homes in order to raise the funds needed to invest in these projects, and were aided by Mr Taylor in arranging the finance.
  219. 28 May 2003 - Rene Walter Rivkin: 9 months of periodic weekend detention and a fine of $30,000. Rivkin was sentenced for insider trading.
  220. 10 June 2003 - Joseph Francis McNeany: 3 years on 20 charges of theft relating $78,254 he received in premiums paid to Integrated Insurance Service.
  221. 11 June 2003 - David Paul Mudge: 27 months on a charge of inducing a person to deal in securities by dishonestly concealing material facts.
  222. 20 June 2003 - Graeme Geoffrey Milner: 2 years for three charges of dishonestly using his position as a company director to gain advantage for himself, and two counts of offering a prescribed interest without an approved deed.
  223. 20 June 2003 - Terrence John Hunter: 2 years for two charges of dishonestly using his position as a company director to gain advantage for himself, and two counts of offering a prescribed interest without an approved deed.
  224. 29 October 2003 - Mark Anthony Johnstone: 3 years, charges were laid following investigation into the failure of DJF Pty Ltd which traded as MI Machinery at Youngtown in Launceston, Tasmania and Johnstone pleading guilty to six charges of fraud.
  225. 11 December 2003 - John Kenneth Shields: 3 years. Shields pleaded guilty to 18 counts of breaching his duties as a director of a public company EPAS Limited, the corporate trustee of the Employees Producticity Award Supernnauation Fund.
  226. 13 November 2003 - Harold Frederick Moses: 2 years and 10 mths, for two charges of cheating and defrauding former clients while operating as an AMP superannuation agent.
  227. 19 December 2003 - Colin Roderick McAskill: 6 months for inducing investors to deal in securities in contravention of the Corps Act while a director of McMan Ostrich Limited.
  228. 12 December 2003 - James Charles Andronicus: 2.5 years jail for managing Boldrow Pty Ltd while an undischarged bankrupt and for obtaining money by deception by promising to supply goods and obtaining credit while an undischarged bankrupt.
  229. 30 January 2004 - Hamish Boyd Mclachlan: 9 years jail after being found guilty on 55 charges involving exchange-traded options being transferred from his personal account to the accounts of clients.
  230. 4 March 2004 - Andrew John Smith: 5 years jail, for thirteen fraud charges after he dishonestly obtained over $190,000 from investors by inducing them to bank debenture trading programs and other schemes offering rental rights to caravans.
  231. 12 March 2004 - Robert Gary Johnstone: Maximum 4 years jail for relation to 18 counts of deception, two counts of making false statements to investors and a further two counts of making false statements and providing false documents to ASIC as the finance director of FOGI.
  232. 15 March 2004 - Amber Joy Phelps: 3 years jail. Phelps pleaded guilty to six counts of dishonesty applying $80,400 belonging to clients of ABN AMRO Morgans and to one count of dishonestly misusing her position as an employee of Boxberg Holdings Pty Ltd, with the intention of gaining an advantage for herself.
  233. 25 March 2004 - Lakhami Gulabrai Daswani or Lux Daswani: two years jail for 15 offences under the Corporations Act and 10 years jail for 12 offences under the Criminal Code.
  234. 26 March 2004 - William Forge: 2 and a half years prison arising from a number of resolutions made at a directors meetings of Hallmark Gold to remove cash from Hallmark for the benefit of thirs parties known to William Forge and Peter Clarke.
  235. 26 March 2004 - Peter Clarke: 18 months prison, to be released after 9 months with the same conditions per above. See above.
  236. 31 March 2004 - Terence Eric Loveday: 20 months prison with a non parole period of 6 months. Mr Balacco and Mr Loveday, both directors of Jetsby Pty Ltd, had each previously pleaded guilty to a charge of operating United Investments Trust, a managed investment scheme that was not registered as required under the Corporations Act 2001. The United Investments Trust was wound up on ASIC's application, and with the consent of Mr Loveday and Mr Balacco, on 13 September 2002. At that time, the Court appointed Mr Hugh McPharlin of Edwards Marshall, as liquidator of the scheme.
  237. 15 April 2004 - Karl Suleman: 21 months jail with non parole of 12 months Mr Suleman has been in custody since 5 March 2004, when he was found guilty by a jury on four charges, following a two-week trial. Mr Suleman's sentence includes time already served, and he will be eligible for parole on 4 March 2005. The fraud charges resulted from an ASIC investigation into Karl Suleman Enterprizes Pty Ltd (KSE) concerning the operation of an unregistered managed investment scheme and other businesses in the Froggy Group of companies.
  238. 16 April 2004 - Cameron John Watt: 4 years, non-parole of 2 years and 6 months. Mr Watt was convicted on 11 counts of dishonestly using his position as an employee (Assistant General Manager) of Baptist Investments & Finance Limited, with the intention of directly or indirectly gaining an advantage for himself. He had been found guilty on four charges by a jury in December 2003. Mr Watt pleaded guilty to a further seven charges during the course of the trial.
  239. 12 May 2004 - Richard Charles Salisbury: 18 months prison with 6 months parole. Mr Salisbury lodged applications with ASIC to reinstate two deregistered companies, Tidiru Pty Ltd and Ausbanque Pty Ltd. The applications falsely stated that Mr Salisbury and his wife, Ms Eunice Salisbury, had been validly appointed directors of the companies. He then made applications, on behalf of the companies, to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and National Australia Bank in an attempt to obtain $74,146.85 in unclaimed moneys held on behalf of the companies.
  240. 18 May 2004 - Peter Lyle Sharp: 5 years jail non parole period of 3 years Mr Sharp had earlier pleaded guilty to 16 charges under the Corporations Act of making improper use of his position as the director of Tietyens Investments Pty Ltd to gain an advantage directly or indirectly for himself, and 23 charges of concurring in the making of false statements with intent to obtain a financial advantage.
  241. 20 May 2004 - Terrance Robert James: 3 years jail for 18 counts of breaching his duties as a director of EPAS Limited, the corporate trustee of the Employees Productivity Award Superannuation Fund, to gain advantages for himself.
  242. 26 May 2004 - Mervyn William Mitchell: 7 years prison with a non parole of 4 years Mr Mitchell pleaded guilty to 110 counts of fraud. ASIC alleged that between July 1995 and May 2003, Mr Mitchell dishonestly obtained $4,571,813 from the superannuation and investment funds of 59 clients, which he used for his own purposes.
  243. 24 June 2004 - Timothy Rhys Hawker: 15 months released after serving six months of his sentence upon entering into a recognisance in the sum of $2,000 to be of good behaviour for a period of two years following his release. Mr Hawker pleaded guilty to 38 charges of insolvent trading and two counts of fraudulent conduct.
  244. 8 September 2004 - Mervyn Alexander Roach: 2 years jail with a minimum of 14 months. Mr Roach was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on charges brought by ASIC and the Victorian Police, after he pleaded guilty to two charges of deception to the value of $59,612.33 and one charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
  245. 9 September 2004 - Upul Samantha Anthony: 4 years and six months imprisonment with a non-parole period of two years and nine months. Mr Anthony, a former securities lending dealer with Cogent Securities Pty Ltd in Sydney, pleaded guilty to three charges of market manipulation brought by ASIC, and 16 charges brought by the NSW Police.
  246. 8 October 2004 - William Frederick Harmer: 2 years imprisonment for making materially misleading statements in a prospectus that sought to raise money to enable Clifton Partners to finalise a total loan facility to Onslow Trading Company Pty Ltd (Onslow Trading) of $2,520,000.
  247. 27 October 2004 - Donna Tung Sing Ho: 17-and-a-half-years for nine charges of dishonestly using over $1.5 million of investors' money on the pretext of investing in various projects in mainland China through the Bo Long Group of Companies with Mark Sweeney.
  248. 27 October 2004 - Mark Andrew Sweeney: Eight-and-a-half years' jail for 10 charges of dishonestly obtaining over $ 2.5 million of investors' money between - see above.
  249. 4 November 2004 - Robert Andrew Street: Five years for five charges of obtaining a financial advantage by deception, involving over $1 million of investors' money for funding to complete a number of investment projects he was developing - which were actually a 'Nigerian Scam'.
  250. 19 November 2004 - Gregory John Waring: Two years and 10 months imprisonment for five charges under the Crimes Act and three charges under the Corporations Act for falsifying the accounts of Corrpro Australia.
  251. 23 November 2004 - Andrew James McKenzie: 4 years imprisonment for dishonestly applying funds. Mr McKenzie pleaded guilty to five counts of dishonestly applying an additional total of $375,000 from the trustee companies and Airlie Investment Corporation Pty Ltd, for his personal use.
  252. 1 December 2004 - Marcus Anthony: 6 months jail and fined $500 after pleading guilty to fraud and operating as an unlicensed insurance broker, misappropriating client funds and engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct.
  253. 9 December 2004 - Robert Geoffrey Walker: Seven years imprisonment, for 21 counts of deception under the Crimes Act arising from false statements made to investors about returns.
  254. 17 December 2004 - Haydn James Dodge: 2 years imprisonment for three counts of conspiracy to defraud investors of approximately $1.4 million, and one count of dishonestly acquiring a financial advantage.
  255. 17 December 2004 - Maxwell John Sweetman: 18 months imprisonment on each charge to be served concurrently for two charges of insider trading in the shares of Harts Australasia. He was a former Executive Director of the company.
  256. 20 December 2004 - Andrzej Janusz Michalik and his son Martin Michalik: 18 months each and fined $200,000. Jailed in relation to contempt charges brought by ASIC.
  257. 11 February 2005 - Gregory Fisher: jailed for 2 years for six counts of dishonesty having spent $220,425 relating to cheques the former managing director of the failed Satellite Group wrote to sponsor women's fashion designer Alex Perry so he could exhibit at a Sydney event in 2000.
  258. 23 March 2005 - John Michael Higgins: 8 years jail for 15 counts of fraudulently misappropriating client funds for his own use and three counts of dishonest conduct in relation to a financial product or financial service, defrauded nine clients of his financial planning business Macquarie Towns Financial Services Pty Ltd.
  259. 31 March 2005 - Mr John Phillip Gorcilov: 5 years jail for six charges relating to the use of a number of false names at various banks in Adelaide where he fraudulently sought funding for proposed purchases and he used false company records, and lied about assets to obtain over $2.39 million.
  260. 14 April 2005 - Rodney Stephen Adler: 4 years and 6 months with non-parole of two years and six months, for four criminal charges including 2 counts of disseminating information knowing it was false, one count of obtaining money by false or misleading statements, and one count of being intentionally dishonest and failing to discharge his duties as a director of HIH.
  261. 15 April 2005 - Ray Williams: 4 years and 6 months with non-parole of two years and nine months for three criminal charges that he was reckless and failed to properly exercise his powers and duties as a director of HIH, that he authorised the issue of a prospectus by HIH that contained a material omission and that he made or authorised a statement in the 1998-99 Annual Report, which he new to be misleading, that overstated the operating profit before abnormal items and income tax by $92.4 million.
  262. 29 April 2005 - John Forwood was jailed for three years and nine months with a non-parole period of 18 months, after pleading guilty to 13 criminal charges of defrauding $3.9 million through his company Signprofiles which submitted bogus invoices road maintenance and line marking that never happened.
  263. 13 May 2005 - Stephen Riddell: sentenced to two years jail with a non-parole period of 16 months in relation to 21 charges brought by ASIC for acting whilst disqualified, lodging false documents with ASIC and lying to his board. Didn't help his cause by being caught with a false foreign passport and initially being sentenced ex-parte after failing to appear in court.
  264. 27 May 2005 - John McMunn: Melbourne serial fraudster sentenced to five years and four months jail with a minimum of 4 years after being found guilty of 16 charges brought by ASIC and 16 charges brought by the AFP relating to obtaining a financial advantage by deception while he was a director of Interest Recount Corp Pty Ltd (IRC), by making false representations to investors and defrauding the Feds of tax revenue in the process.
  265. 15 June 2005 - Luke Duffy: the former head of NAB's foreign currency options desk was sentenced to 29 months imprisonment with a minimum of 16 months after pleading guilty to three charges of dishonestly using his position as an employee of NAB in order to gain advantages for himself and others.
  266. 20 June 2005 - Peter Puhakka: 57-year-old tiler from southern Sydney got eight months with a minimum of three on seven charges for making false statements in documents lodged with ASIC and three counts of falsifying company records.
  267. 21 June 2005 - Michael Andrew Smith: Former South Australian adviser jailed for fraud and was sentenced to three years and six months imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 18 months.
  268. 24 June 2005 - Richard James Frawley of Kogarah Bay in New South Wales, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years imprisonment after being found guilty of making a profit of $586,000.77 which comprises the presen t value of his profit from trading in JNA shares.
  269. 1 July 2005 - John Henderson Jackson: A former Adelaide-based liquidator, was today sentenced to 3 years jail in the District Court in Adelaide on charges arising from an investigation by the ASIC into his conduct as a receiver and manager of Edcom Real Estate Pty Ltd (Edcom).
  270. 15 August 2005 - Elizabeth Heather Parry: Cairns accountant who operated a Cairns-based accounting practice, trading as Parry & More Accountants, jailed for ten years after pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
  271. 13 September 2005 - John Barrie Loiterton: had been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to one charge of making a false or misleading announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in late 1998 while a director of Clifford Corporation Ltd (Clifford).
  272. 28 October 2005 - Craig John Mckim: sentenced to eight years jail with a non-parole period of five years after pleaded guilty to fraudulently taking funds totalling $2,187,963 for his own use.
  273. 23 December 2005 - Timothy Dougals Barr Dickson: A former equities advisor of Balair in South Australia was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after pleaded guilty to dishonestly used his position as an employee of Baker Young Stockbrokes Limited to gain an advantage for himself totalling $36,000 by causing clients' money to be transferred without their knowledge or consent.
  274. 24 February 2006 - Calvin Everard Borgonha: A former accountant from Vermont South in Victoria, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to five fraud charges brought by ASIC.
  275. 9 March 2006 - Anthony Keith Kelly: sentenced to five years imprisonment, to serve three years in custody with an additional two years parole after serving the custodial sentence, in relation to fraud charges.
  276. 4 April 2006 - Alan Raymond Dawson: former managing director of Voicenet, was sentenced to two years imprisonment on two counts (to be served concurrently) of failing to act honestly in the discharge of his duties as a director of Voicenet.
  277. 6 April 2006 - Gianni Gray: convicted and sentenced to 16 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to dishonestly using his position as an employee of NAB in order to gain advantages for himself and others.
  278. 7 April 2006 - Chad Timmins: sentenced to three years and three months in prison in relation to eight counts of fraud relating to the early release of preserved superannuation benefits and to dishonestly applying other people's property to his own use.
  279. 15 May 2006 - Donald Richard Maxwell: pleaded guilty to one count of carrying on a financial services business without an Australian financial services licence (AFSL) and was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment.
  280. 25 May 2006 - Andre Michalik: formerly of Oyster Bay in Sydney, will serve a non-parole period of seven months which commenced on 27 November, 2005, after pleading guilty to six offences of engaging in dishonest conduct while carrying on a financial services business. Another 20 offences were taken into account on sentence.
  281. 23 June 2006 - Bradley Cooper: convicted on six charges of corruptly giving a series of cash benefits to influence an agent of HIH Insurance Limited and on seven charges of publishing false or misleading statements with intent to obtain a financial advantage and was sentenced to serve a minimum of five years' jail.
  282. 18 September 2006 - Piet Cornelius Walters: convicted and sentenced to 8 years in jail in relation to 14 charges of dishonesty involving over $972,000 in relation to the provision of financial services to 10 clients of Drury Management Pty Ltd.
  283. 22 September 2006 - Rocco Ferrantino: sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a superannuation rollover benefits scheme.
  284. 29 September 2006 - David John Muir: sentenced to two years in prison to serve 10 months and then enter into a recognisance in the amount of $10,000 to be of good behaviour for 14 months. Muir pleaded guilty to seven charges of making improper use of his position as a company director on 13 June 2006, and was remanded in custody from that date.
  285. 3 November 2006 - Guiseppe Antonio Mercorella: the District Court in Adelaide sentenced Mr Mercorella, a former Adelaide company director, who pleaded guilty to 13 offences under the Corporations Act, to five years imprisonment with a non-parole period of two and a half years.
  286. 3 November 2006 - Paul Drakos: eight-and-a-half year sentence after pleaded guilty to eight counts of dishonestly.
  287. 9 November 2006 - Neville John Kakoschke: sentenced to two-and-a-half years on 27 forgery charges arising from an investigation by ASIC.
  288. 23 November 2006 - Mark Timleris: 3 years imprisonment. The charges related to falsifying Bustan Group inventory and accounting records, dishonestly using his position to gain a financial advantage for the Bustan Group, and knowingly signing the false Bustan Group 2000 and 2001 financial statements subsequent to deceiving the former auditors, Ernst & Young.
  289. 1 December 2006 - Antony (Tony) Boulden: A former Financial Controller of the Corporate and Professional Insurance Division of FAI General Insurance Company Limited (FAIG), was today sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 months to be served by way of periodic detention.
  290. 12 December 2006 - Roy Albert Edwards: Mr Edwards, was sentenced to nine months imprisonment in the Magistrates Court of Western Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of managing a company while disqualified.
  291. 24 January 2007 - Karl Suleman: former director of Karl Suleman Enterprises Pty Limited (KSE), was jailed 7 years after pleading guilty on 1 May 2006 to a total of 26 charges following an investigation by ASIC into the operations of KSE.
  292. 8 February 2007 - Shane William Hoy: jailed for five and a half years by the Brisbane District Court following an investigation by ASIC into his dishonest use of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  293. 9 February 2007 - James Kwok: sentenced to 24 months imprisonment after being found guilty of dishonestly using his position as a director under the Corporations Act.
  294. 30 March 2007 - Margot Olive McKay: A former Sydney media relations consultant who pleaded guilty to insider trading has been sentenced to 15 months periodic detention following an investigation by ASIC.
  295. 3 April 2007 - Stephen Craig Jenvey: sentenced to four years and three months imprisonment after pleaded guilty to six counts of theft and three counts of corruptly receiving an inducement or reward.
  296. 12 July 2007 - Richard James Blundell: Former director of insurance broking company, Blundell & Associates Pty Ltd has been sentenced to two years imprisonment, discounted to 18 months due to a guilty plea, on charges brought by ASIC.
  297. 13 July 2007 - Marcel Ivan Shears: 12 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to five charges of insolvent trading between 30 June and 10 August 2003.
  298. 16 July 2007 -Paul John Blundell: sentenced to a further 18 months for another count of fraudulently omitting to account for money, with a non parole period of nine months.
  299. 8 August 2007 - Edward Lawrence: sentenced to six months imprisonment after pleading guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court to three charges.
  300. 31 August 2007 - Mark Alan Taylor: 18 months imprisonment on 63 charges relating to the promotion of investments in the failed Queensland investment scheme known as the Wattle Group.
  301. 10 September 2007 - John Gerard Sage: Two years imprisonment on 10 charges of providing materially misleading oral statements and investment brochures to investors concerning his property development, Pacific Tower in Hawthorn, Victoria, between August 1999 and June 2002.
  302. 12 September 2007 - Anthony John Brownlee: sentenced to nine months imprisonment with a minimum term of three months imprisonment after pleading guilty to six charges brought by ASIC.
  303. 15 October 2007- Stuart Adrian Corp & Mr Brian Millwood Smith: were each sentenced to three years in prison, to be released on a recognisance after serving 16 months.
  304. 2 November 2007- Piet Cornelius Walters: eight years jail after pleading guilty on 30 October 2007 to 14 fraud charges laid by ASIC and an additional charge of dishonest inducement.
  305. 21 November 2007 - Robert Orehek: pleaded guilty to two charges of fraudulently misappropriating investors' funds amounting to $170,000 and was sentenced to four years and four months in prison
  306. 21 December 2007 - Peter Robert Woodland: sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty to one count of insider trading and one count of communicating inside information to other persons.
  307. 1 February 2008 - Michael Kwong: Three years imprisonment in relation to five Commonwealth offences.
  308. 18 Februrary 2008 - Dominic Cincotta: Five years in prison after pleading guilty to seven fraud charges brought by ASIC.
  309. 20 February 2008 -Ronald William Wynhoven: An undischarged bankrupt and former mortgage broker, was sentenced in the Melbourne County Court to three years imprisonment with 12 months to serve.
  310. 29 February 2008 - Randolph Raymond: Formerly of Jindalee, Queensland, was sentenced to three years imprisonment, to serve 12 months, after pleading guilty to five fraud charges in the Brisbane District Court brought by ASIC.
  311. 29 February 2008 - Kenneth David Evans:the former chief financial officer and director of TEAC Australia Pty Ltd, was today sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment, wholly suspended for three years, in the County Court of Victoria following an investigation by ASIC.
  312. 28 March 2008 - Mr Tunde Doja: of Sydney, New South Wales, has today been sentenced to a minimum of three years and eight months imprisonment in the Sydney District Court following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) into Progressive Investment
  313. 9 May 2008 - Mr Kym Andrew Sellers of Morphettville in South Australia was today sentenced to four years jail with a two-year non-parole period. On 7 April 2008, Mr Sellers, 32, pleaded guilty to 16 charges of dishonestly using his position as a designated trading representative with Taylor Collison Limited to obtain more than $441,000.
  314. 6 June 2008 - Mr Michael Kosmos Damianos, of Bentleigh East, Victoria, was yesterday sentenced to jail after pleading guilty in the Melbourne County Court to obtaining a financial advantage by deception and false accounting, following an ASIC investigation.
  315. 27 June 2008 - Mr Mark Andrew Cyril Stanle, 46, was sentenced in the County Court of Victoria following two separate investigations by ASIC. He was subsequently charged with two counts of theft totalling approximately $2.79 million and two Corporations Act offences.
  316. 25 July 2008 - Mr Peter Braun of Rose Bay, New South Wales, was today sentenced in the Sydney District Court in relation to six charges of dishonest conduct laid by ASIC.Mr Braun was sentenced to a total of three years and nine months in prison, with a non-parole period of two years and five months.
  317. 30 July 2008 - Mr Robert Bassili, former director of Radisson Maine Property Group (Australia) Pty Ltd (RMPG) and Chief Executive Officer of RAN Holdings International Ltd, has been sentenced today in the Sydney District Court to three years and three months jail.
  318. 20 August 2008 - Mr Scott James Dawson, of Greenslopes, Queensland, has been sentenced today in the Brisbane District Court to three and a half years imprisonment after pleading guilty to eight charges brought by ASIC. Mr Dawson will serve 10 months of his sentence before being released on a five year good behaviour bond.

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