First up, this chronological snapshot suggests ASIC had a slightly better year in 2008.
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: 24
February 1991 - Laurence Hann: 3 years for obtaining property by deception.
February 1991 - Kin Pin Yiu and Cho Hong Yam: 8 years for conspiracy to defraud investors of $6.4 million.
May 1991 - Ernst Abraham Siewertsz Van Reesman: a year for being a director whilst disqualified.
October 1991 - Joseph Anthony Talia: company director who for 2 years offered debentures without a prospectus or deed.
December 1991 - Edward Hunter Heslop: a former Sydney company director who received
5 years on nine counts of cheating and defrauding.
December 1991 - Thomas William Skelly: a former licensed investment adviser who received 3 years on 19 charges of obtaining property by deception.
February 1992 - David James Moffat: former stockbroker and investment adviser with failed firm Byron Moore Journeaux, who received 1 year for theft.
May 1992 - Robert Gordon Neilson: former self-employed Melbourne investment consultant received 2 years on three charges of theft and four charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception.
June 1992 - Bernt Berentsen and Andrew Peter Anderton: a former director and a former general manager of Lombard Nash, they received 2 years periodic detention for fraud.
June 1992 - Phillip John Law: former director of CIC Insurance
who received 4 years on 24 charges of fraud and cheating.
July 1992 - Alan Reginald Worts: former Geelong financial adviser
who received 3.5 years on 20 counts of theft amounting to $565,000.
September 1992 - Ernst Van Reesema: disqualified Adelaide company director
put away for 11 months for being a company director whilst disqualified.
September 1992 - Robin Sarah Greenburg: a former MD of Perth-based Western Women Financial Services received 17 years 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 and one count of arson contrary to the WA Bushfires Act.
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 Pty Ltd.
March 1993 - Terrence Keith Burke: four months for concealing company books in Launceston.
May 1993 - Martin Desmond Mullins: former director of Falcon Australia Ltd, Mullins Investment P/L and Minefield Exploration NL who was jailed for 30 months on two counts of procuring execution of valuable securities.
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.
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
June 1993 - Gordon Arthur Filmer: former director
received
18 months on 10 charges of managing the affairs of Affordable Funerals whilst disqualified.
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.
August 1993 - Russell John Delaney: Melbourne man received 2 months for misleading statements and gaining a financial advantage by deception.
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.
September 1993 - Terrence John Hasler: former Hobart building company director
received
9 months on charges of making improper use of his position as a director to gain advantage.
November 1993 - Richard Lew and his father Reubin Lew: former managing director of Estate Mortgage 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.
November 1993 - Anthony Bird Burgess: former Melbourne investment adviser
received
40 months on six charges of theft from his clients worth $500,000.
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 DB De Bartolomeis Australia to gain advantage.
December 1993 - Gilheasboig Kerr Mackie: former director of Queensland-based Chemex Chemicals who received 6 months for making improper use of position as a director.
January 1994 - George Karounos: a former Adelaide company director
who received 2.5 years for conspiracy to defraud.
March 1994 - Grahame Douglas McDougall: Brisbane businessman who received 3 years for misappropriation of property worth $57,000.
May 1994 - Dale Leigh Pedersen: former Melbourne director jailed for 2 years for obtaining property by deception, making false entries and failing to act honestly in relation to SVO Limousines.
June 1994 - Peter Reuben Schnieder: former accountant with AP Consolidated Pty Ltd
who got 4 years on six charges including falsification of books, theft to the value of $1.1 million and four counts of obtaining financial advantage
July 1994 - Barry Kevin Edgecombe: bankrupt Adelaide accountant and auditor got 18 months for improper use of his position as company secretary of R&W Investments.
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.
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.
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 in Forestry Management Pty Ltd.
October 1994 - John Bannerman: former director of Convention Planners Pty Ltd was jailed for 8 months for making improper use of position as director.
December 2 1994 - Con Barris: a West Australian director who received
4 years for illegally authorising payments of $274,000 to his private company.
January 16 1995 - Kanwal Nain Singh: Brisbane businessman man who received 6 months for forgery and then got a further 6 weeks later in the year for managing a corporation whilst an undischarged bankrupt and convicted person.
May 4 1995 - Peter Dimitri: former Sydney director got 1 month for illegally inviting the public to subscribe for shares in Gemboree Pty Ltd.
Friday 5 May 1995 - Peter Francis Peck: unlicensed futures trader jailed for 3.5 years for his illegal futures trading.
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.
May 15 1995 - Geoffrey Puttick: 2 years for improperly using his position as a director to deposit $100,000 of company funds into his private company.
17 May 1995 - Douglas Miller, Alan Rose and Arthur Murphy: of Equity Management Corporation,
were sentenced to 18, 18 and 12 months respectively.
June 1995 Jaimie Craven: an associate of Brian Yuill in the Spedley group of companies was jailed initially for 6 months for contempt and then 6 months for breach of directors duties.
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.
June 1995 - Garry William Lovering: the South Australian got 18 months on charges of improperly using his position as a director of GIM.
July 27 1995 - Desley Dawn Smith: 9 months for falsifying company records on wages and tax instalments.
August 1995 - Anthony Whittall: a company director who was jailed for 18 months after extradition from NZ on charges of misusing his position to gain a personal advantage. Ordered to pay $693,000 in compensation to the receiver.
August 1995 - John Becroft Allison: 2 years for managing Valdaze Pty Ltd and Solidoor Pty Ltd when an undischarged bankrupt.
August 1995 - James Crowl: an accountant
who received 4 years for a $900,000 fraud.
September 1995 - Garry Carter: notorious entrepreneur behind the Entity Group who finished up inside for four years.
September 1995 - Simon Lill, Michael Bibby and Brian Welch: 18 months each for the lads involved in the Equity Minerals chicanery.
October 1995 - Coomaraswamy Sivandran: the managing director of Perth-based Paper Products Pty Ltd got 3 years for stealing $524,200.
October 1995 - Robert Brian Dawson: 9 months for managing Coffsgate Industrial Estate whilst an insolvent under administration.
November 1995 - Harold Christensen: the stockbroker and former manager of the Perth Stock Exchange got 2 years for share price manipulation.
November 1995 - George Adler: the Sydney spiv got 6 months for managing companies whilst disqualified and previously served 18 months for cheating and defrauding a company.
December 1995 - Ray Lord and John Riordan: got 2.5 years each for their role at Direct Acceptance Corporation.
December 1995 - Michael Bibby: 1 year on charges arising from his role as a director of Cityscape Limited.
December 1995 - Brian Yuill: the former managing director of Spedley Securities got an
additional 2.5 years after already serving two separate terms of three years and nine months, and 2.5 years, for breaching director's duties.
December 1995 - Helen Bartley: the Tasmanian for 3.66 years for stealing and falsifying company books.
March 1996 - Micheal Wayne Childs: 9 months for managing two WA companies whilst disqualified.
May 1996 - Gavin Keith Hyland: 4.5 years on charges relating to false pretences and wilful false promise contrary to the
Queensland Criminal Code.
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.
May 20 1996 - Robin Andrew Buckley: 30 days for contempt of court after failed to repay $1.8 million to investors who had entrusted him with foreign exchange investments.
June 14 1996 - Paul Ferguson Fitzsimmons: 2 years for his part in the Kia Ora reverse takeover transaction involving Duke Group.
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.
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 alteration of books.
September 20 1996 - Arden Rodrick Wittensleger: the former Perth investment adviser got
4 years on 46 counts of stealing associated with his company Astute Financial Group Pty Ltd.
September 20 1996 - Victor Warren Ollis: 6 months for managing 3 companies while a prohibited person.
October 2 1996 - Neil MacKenzie-Forbes was jailed 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.
October 4 1996 - Murray Evan Williams: the colourful Sydney PR man got 18 months periodic detention and fined $50,000 following insider trading charges in relation to the purchase of shares in failed pay-TV company Australis Media.
October 16 1996 - Phillip Kenneth Johnston: the Darwin building company director got
3 months for managing a number of companies within five years of being convicted of serious fraud.
November 7 1996 - James Patrick Gollan: the Mt Gambier businessman got 6 months for managing Constats Australia Pty Ltd whilst an undischarged bankrupt.
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.
20 November 1996 - Marguerite Ruth Woods and John Stephen Woods: Two former directors of Queen Street Press who each got four years on 34 charges of false pretences.
16 December 1996 - Christopher Bruce Smith: the Brisbane businessman got 4 years on 19 charges relating to his company Medallion 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.
24 January 1997 - Marion Wojcik: the Tasmanian businessman got 18 months on 68 ASIC charges of being knowingly concerned in Exclusive Marketing's attempt to defraud Woolworths.
31 January 1997 - Terry John Swanton: the former Adelaide financial controller got 6 years on two separate sets of charges brought by ASIC and the South Australian Police.
5 February 1997 - Alan Bond: Australia's biggest thief got another
4 years on charges relating to his private use of $1.2 billion in Bell Resources Ltd funds. The sentence was cumulative on the 3 year La Promenade matter.
11 February 1997 - Richard Anthony Stephen Kontos: got 3 years on 13 charges for managing 4 companies whilst a declared bankrupt.
17 February 1997 - Tom Lesic: the former NSW car yard owner got 12 months for being involved in a company whilst an undischarged bankrupt.
7 March 1997 - Ronald Campbell Richardson: the Cairns company director and auditor got
12 months for a false audit report.
April 1997 - Stephen Thomas Goodwin: 3 months periodic detention for managing Country Manor Frozen Foods Pty Ltd whilst an undischarged bankrupt.
April 1997 - John Stewart Corner: 18 months periodic detention and fined $23,000 on three Companies Code charges.
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.
April 1997 - Christopher John Bannerman: one month for making improper use of his position as a director of Convention Planners Ltd.
2 May 1997 - Peter Mitchell: 4 years for $1.4 billion cash strip of Bell Resources by Bond Corp.
9 May 1997 - Rong Xiong Fan: 9 months from Brisbane Magistrate for making improper use of his position of director of Thorlon Pty Ltd.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3 November 1997 - Kelvin Philip Andrews: former Queensland trustee got 18 months for forgery and misappropriation.
27 November 1997 - Sean Patrick MacNamara: former Gold Coast director got 12 months.
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
19 December 1997 - Daryl Fredrick Bledsoe: two years for misappropriating property.
22 December 1997 - Peter Manery Spies: 18 months periodic detention for defrauding Australian Duty Free Operators Ltd creditors of $500,000.
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.
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.
9 March 1998 - Philip Leonard Andrews: four years for removing $300,000 from a trust account without authorisation.
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.
23 March 1998 - Jane Wilson: 12 months for aiding and abetting Alan Nichols of Tasmanian Cleaning Services.
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.
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.
18 May 1998 - Robert Lloyd Lewis: Brisbane District Court gave 4.5 years for misappropriating $225,000 from 12 investors.
18 May 1998 - Megan Elizabeth Bauer: 18 months for being instrumental in Robert Lloyd Lewis misappropriating $225,000 from 12 investors.
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.
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.
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9 June 1998 - Michael Robert Shearer: 18 months for market manipulation of Reef Mining Ltd over two weeks involving 1.2m shares using fictitious names.
23 June 1998 - Samuel John Papotto: Perth lad got 6 months for managing a company while disqualified.
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.
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.
10 August 1998 - Robert David Lavigne: bankrupt Sydney businessman got 24 weeks for managing a company whilst an insolvent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
19 November 1998 - Robin Andrew Buckley: 8 years for financial advantage by deception and the making of offers for subscription of a prescribed interest.
27 January 1999 - Peter Gerard Jackman: 18 months for this former Queensland investment adviser.
28 January 1999 - Rolf John Schreuder: former director of Transequity Ltd got 4 months for being involved when banned.
29 January 1999 - George Adler: six years for obtaining money by deception.
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.
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.
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.
1 April 1999 - Michael James Giovinazzo: 4 years for fraudulently obtaining $235,000 from investors.
9 April 1999 - Melissa Wendy Norman: 18 months for misappropriating $240,996 from Kerdale Pty Ltd where she was a director.
21 April 1999 - Dean Russell Anderson: 3 months for managing Australian Home Marketing Pty Ltd while an undischarged bankrupt.
19 May 1999 - Roland Kerkmez: 6 months for managing Videoland Pty Ltd while banned from doing so.
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.
4 June 1999 - Sandra Joyce Stephens: former Tassie investment adviser got 4 years for stealing and cheating.
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.
21 June 1999 - Allan McDonald Healy: 5 years for dishonestly obtaining $3 million from clients of failed Victorian financial services group Sentinel.
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.
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.
14 October 1999 - Andrew John Smith: 3 years for misappropriating $156,000 in his position as a director of Afcan Group International.
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.
6 December 1999 - Donald Richard Maxwell: 1 year periodic detention for obtaining a financial advantage by deception and offering securities without a prospectus.
7 December 1999 - Anthony James Fitzwater: 4 years after misappropriating $180,000 from an insurance bond belonging to a long-standing client.
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.
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.
21 January 2000 - Former Eastwood investment adviser Larry Douglas Westwood: 2 years for misappropriating $114,000 from four investors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
4 May 2000 - Stephen Lewis Matthews: 3 months for contempt for the former publisher of The Chimes website.
5 May 2000 - William Richard Tooth: 5.2 years for 8 counts of financial advantage by deception.
8 May 2000 - Phillip Stephen O'Leary, formerly a Melbourne investment adviser: 18 months for 8 counts of theft from clients totalling $130,000.
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.
15 May 2000 - Milan Izidor Tusek: 2.5 years for this bankrupt former Queensland property developer on fraud charges.
19 May 2000 - Paul William Wilhelm: 5 years for this Sand Groper on 15 fraud counts.
4 July 2000 - Christopher Martyn Matson: 12 months from the Launceston Court of Petty Sessions.
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.
11 July 2000 - Charles William Swinton: 3 years for this former Sydney investment adviser for fraud and misappropriating $281,088 from three clients.
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.
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.
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.
12 October 2000 - Karl William Brooks: 3 months for managing Brisbane company CB Environmental Barrier Paints while prohibited.
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.
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.
30 October 2000 - Steven George Hourmozis: 2 years for spamming and hitting email bulletin boards to ramp stocks.
3 November 2000 - Noel Andrew Bell: 2.8 years for 24 charges of illegally raising $2.8m funds from investors without a prospectus.
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).
11 December 2000 - Donald Clarke: 9 years for 14 charges of misappropriating funds from investors for debt factoring for other purposes
December 2000 - Christopher Bruce Smith: 2 years for defrauding a pensioner of $119,400.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
25 May 2001 - Robyn Ann-Carrolle Cochrane, a Central Coast investment adviser: 4 years for 29 fraud charges.
10 July 2001 - Robyn Ann-Carolle Cochrane- further 6 months, to be served concurrently, for acting as an investment advisor without a license.
25 May 2001 - Damien Parkes- 5 years for seven fraud charges relating to his involvement with the Nambucca Group of companies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
16 November 2001 - Leonard Jon Smith: 7 years jail after being found guilty on 22 charges involving intentional fraud of $870,000.
25 February 2002 - Julian Kok Chee Lee: 2.5 years, pleadrd guilty to 14 charges of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception.
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.
22 April 2002 - Alejandro Arisitides Romano, officer of Pearl Group International: 2 years jail, pleaded guilty to one charge of failing to act honestly.
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.
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.
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.
24 June 2002 - Dennis Charter, director of Kiss Corporation: 18 months jail for improperly diverting a cheque for $402,500.
26 June 2002 - former Chief Financial Officer of Harris Scarfe Holdings ltd, Alan Hodgson: 6 years jail for 32 charges.
24 July 2002 - John Phillip Gorcilov: 2 years for fraud charges.
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.
12 August 2002 - Joachim Prehn, a former Burnie-based financial and insurance adviser: 6 years jail for 28 counts of fraud.
12 August 2002 - Paul Grant Stuart: 1 year after being found guilty of defrauding two investors of $35,500.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
16 October 2002 - Damien Parkes: 12 months for misusing $162,500 to buy a house in Vaucluse.
October 2002 - Douglas Gordon Johnston: 4 years, for 26 charges, 19 related to him obtaining $843,416 from clients.
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.
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.
18 December 2002 - James Gordon Kearns: 6 years for on nine counts of fraud.
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.
2 April 2003 - Randall John McFie: 2 years (suspended after 6 months) on a charge of attempted fraud.
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.
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.
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.
28 May 2003 - Rene Walter Rivkin: 9 months of periodic weekend detention and a fine of $30,000. Rivkin was sentenced for insider trading.
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.
11 June 2003 - David Paul Mudge: 27 months on a charge of inducing a person to deal in securities by dishonestly concealing material facts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
26 March 2004 - Peter Clarke: 18 months prison, to be released after 9 months with the same conditions per above. See above.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
22 September 2006 - Rocco Ferrantino: sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a superannuation rollover benefits scheme.
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.
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.
3 November 2006 - Paul Drakos: eight-and-a-half year sentence after pleaded guilty to eight counts of dishonestly.
9 November 2006 - Neville John Kakoschke: sentenced to two-and-a-half years on 27 forgery charges arising from an investigation by ASIC.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8 August 2007 - Edward Lawrence: sentenced to six months imprisonment after pleading guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court to three charges.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
1 February 2008 - Michael Kwong: Three years imprisonment in relation to five Commonwealth offences.
18 Februrary 2008 - Dominic Cincotta: Five years in prison after pleading guilty to seven fraud charges brought by ASIC.
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.
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.
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.
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
1 April 2008 -
Ms Annemieke De Boer,
of Shenton Park in Perth, was today sentenced in the Perth District
Court to one year imprisonment suspended for two years after pleading
guilty to stealing $48,000 from a former client.
29 April 2008 -
Mr Gary O'Neill,
of Elwood, Victoria, was yesterday sentenced in the Melbourne County
Court after pleading guilty to two charges of dishonestly using his
position.
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.
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.
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.
16 July 2008 -
Mr Rober James Wilson,
of Kensington, Victoria, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months
imprisonment after pleading guilty in the County Court of Victoria to
two charges of theft, one charge of obtaining financial advantage by
deception and one
charge of obtaining property by deception, following
an ASIC investigation.
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.
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.
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.
16 September 2008 -
Mr Marcel Shears,
has been resentenced in the Southport District Court to four months
imprisonment after failing to complete 200 hours community service
imposed in July 2007.
18 September 2008 -
Mr John Tsingaris of
Rosanna, Victoria, has been sentenced today in the Melbourne County
Court to two and a half years imprisonment for offences involving the
misappropriation of over $160,000 from 20 investors.
19 September 2008 -
Mr Geogory Nathan,
faced five counts of dishonest conduct under the Corporations Act and a
further four counts of obtaining money making false and misleading
statements while managing the fund under the NSW State Crime Act, was
today sentenced to seven years imprisonment following an investigation
by ASIC.
1 October 2008 -
Mr Robin Brian Poumako,
the former directors of International Finance Corporation Pty Ltd (in
liquidation) (IFC) were sentenced today to two years and six months
imprisonment in the South Australian District Court on 44 charges
relating to raising funds from the public in breach of the Corporations
Act (the Act).
4 November 2008 -
Mr Kevin Pollock,
director of Perth-based
property developers, the Pollock Group, was today sentenced in the
Supreme Court in Perth to three years and four months imprisonment. Mr
Pollock faced fraud charges totalling over $3 million laid by ASIC, he
was also fined $60,000.
December 11 2008 -
Mr Darryl John
Loane, former property developer of the Gold Coast Queensland, was yesterday sentenced in the
Southport District Court to eight years imprisonmentfor dishonestly obtaining a loan of $4,700,000 from
Lawloan Mortgages Pty Ltd on or about 7 May 1999 for the development of
Cove Resort Pty Ltd in the Whitsundays.
12 December 2008 -
Mr Michael Cay, 39, of Greenvale,
Melbourne, who was the operator of finance and
mortgage broking firm, Jewel Financial Services Pty Ltd (Jewel), which
is now in liquidation, pleaded guilty to four counts of obtaining
property by deception and one count of obtaining a financial advantage
by deception, was sentenced in the Melbourne County Court to four
years imprisonment.
17 December 2008 -
Mr Spartaco Fasciale was convicted by a jury on four
counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception, 10 counts of
dishonestly obtaining property by deception and 14 counts of breaching
directors' duties following a two week trial. He was sentenced in the Melbourne County Court to six years imprisonment.