Gold Coast ‘finfluencer’ Tyson Scholz has been permanently barred from conducting a financial services business without a license, after a court found he provided illegal financial services by giving tips on his Instagram account and to customers who paid for access to his seminars and ‘Black Wolf Pit’ chat room.
Construction firm CIMIC has won its bid to view identifying information about institutional investors in a shareholder class action, despite the applicant’s claims it could deter group members from signing on to the case.
Prosecutors have dropped its fraud case against the former chief financial officer of a unit of collapsed Gold Coast finance company Octaviar Investments, citing his poor health.
Insurer Bond & Credit Company has overcome an administrator’s protests and won leave to bring cross-claims against three Greensill entities in lawsuits over the financing firm’s $1.7 billion collapse.
Justice Paul Brereton has been appointed to lead the new National Anti-Corruption Commission, with the CEO of AUSTRAC, the Disability Discrimination Commissioner, as well as two senior figures at NSW ICAC also tapped for senior roles.
Facing a claim to cover the legal costs of former Orix CEO John Carter under a D&O policy, Chubb has been given the green light to argue that Coca-Cola Amatil’s board had no knowledge of alleged secret bribes.
A Sydney lawyer has been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison for laundering $24 million as part of the Plutus tax fraud.
The fifth and final defendant named in a criminal proceeding over a $105 million tax fraud involving payroll services company Plutus Payroll has been found guilty for his part in the scheme.
Tesla Motors Australia former director Kurt Schlosser has been given a suspended sentence for trading in shares of a lithium supplier based on insider information.
A former JPMorgan executive has been charged with eight counts of fraud for allegedly misappropriating $940,350 from clients of his defunct companies, Guevara Capital and Online Trading Capital.