by admin | Dec 11, 2020 | News & Analysis
Victims of Bernie Madoff, the mastermind behind the worst financial scam in history, will receive $448m in additional payments through a victim fund. The 82-year-old was sentenced to 150 years in prison in 2009 for running the pyramid-style scheme...
by admin | Dec 11, 2020 | News & Analysis
AUSTRAC launched its money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risk assessment of the junket tour operations (JTOs) sector and classed the risk as ‘High’. The assessment concludes that the main criminal threat facing the JTOs sector is money laundering. ...
by admin | Dec 10, 2020 | News & Analysis
Kent Hunter (a friend of corrupt WA bureaucrat Paul Whyte) has given evidence at a corruption and crime commission. Ken, denied paying Whyte “kickbacks” in return for being given government work, as he was unable to explain how his company ended up being...
by admin | Dec 10, 2020 | News & Analysis
Nine people have been arrested in NSW over an alleged scheme to fraudulently obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money, intended for victims of last year’s bushfires....
by admin | Dec 10, 2020 | News & Analysis
A woman who worked as bank teller, has been charged after an investigation into fraudulent activity totalling approximately $250,000 at a bank in the state’s far west earlier this year....
by admin | Dec 9, 2020 | News & Analysis
A bipartisan parliamentary committee will call for more funding for Victoria’s corruption watchdog after both the IBAC chief and the Ombudsman, insisted the Andrews government had failed to adequately support their work. It is claimed that corruption allegations...
