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ASIC, Conduct, Discipline, Liquidators, Social/Professional 26 February 2021

For Bettles or Worse ASIC seeks life ban

Worrells partner Jason Bettles. The corporate regulator has returned to the fray in its ongoing campaign to rub out Jason Bettles, calling for the Worrells partner to be stripped of his liquidator’s ticket and banned for life. In a 160 page Statement of Claim filed in the Federal Court last week, ASIC alleges that Bettles’ conduct in respect of the Members Alliance Group of Companies…

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ASIC, Careers in Arrears, Conduct, Judgment, Liquidators, Social/Professional 30 October 2020

Liquidator faked memoranda to fool ASIC

Macks Advisory’s Peter Macks. South Australian liquidator Peter Macks faked documents in an attempt to foil an ASIC investigation, a court has found. In Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Peter Ivan Macks (No.4) [2020] SASC 209 South Australian Supreme Court judge Sam Doyle said Macks had acted dishonestly and for the purpose of deceiving ASIC in respect of a memoranda Macks provided to the…