The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has asked the Federal Court to appoint Korda Mentha’s Rahul Goyal and David Winterbottom special purpose liquidators (SPLs) of a company formerly known as ABC Refinery Pty Ltd in a move that would supplant general purpose liquidator (GPL) Schon Condon and focus the ATO’s GST fight with the precious metal refining sector squarely on the owners behind the Pallion precious metals group. In…
Two weeks before Christmas Melbourne-based insolvency practitioner Stan Traianedes received the most thoughtful of gifts from the Companies Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board (CALDB) – a three year suspension that will allow him ample time to pursue his passion for photography. The Hall Chadwick alumnus – who until his lengthy benching practiced under the name S&Z Insolvency from offices in ritzy Parkville – was hauled before CALDB…
The corporate regulator has ensured 2017 starts with a bang by asking the NSW Supreme Court to inquire into the conduct of Armstrong Wily principal Andrew Wily and former partner Dave Hurst in relation to their conduct of liquidations associated with Crystal Car Wash Cafe. Neither defendant was free to comment when contacted by SiN. The full text of the ASIC release follows. ASIC has lodged an…
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has launched a $200 million claim in the Federal Court against ABC Refinery Pty Ltd, four months after the company’s directors resolved to wind up the Sydney-based gold refiner and appointed Condon Associates’ Schon Condon as liquidator. Lawyers for the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (DCOT) lodged an originating process and supporting affidavit in the Federal Court last Friday. Neither Condon or ABC…