dVT’s Suelen McCallum. dVT’s Riad Tayeh dVT duo Suelen McCallum and Riad Tayeh haven’t had the best of starts to the year of the sneezing pangolin with the Disciplinary Tribunal of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) dishing out fines and a professional censure in respect of a breach of the accounting profession’s byzantine APES code. As well as being slugged $8,500 each for…
Trajan John Kukulovski. Chan & Naylor partner Trajan John Kukulovski is not going to be stripped of his license to liquidate without a fight. After a committee convened under S 40-45 of the Insolvency Practice Schedule (Corporations) ruled late last year that Kukulovski’s registration should be cancelled he immediately sought to have the Committee’s decisions reviewed in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). iNO says “decisions”…
Louise Thomson: first trustee to be referred to disciplinary committee twice. Image Veritas Advisory. With apologies to Oscar Wilde, iNO was recently moved to observe that while being referred to a disciplinary committee once might be considered a misfortune, twice looks like carelessness. Certainly it will be unfortunate if it transpires that misfortune is behind AFSA’s most recent referral of Louise Thomson to a committee…
BPS Recovery’s Mitchell Ball. Jump on directors, back-dated documents, low ball fees and a common referrer – a disciplinary committee convened to consider whether liquidator Mitchell Ball should remain registered has benched the BPS Recovery partner for a year but declined to cancel his registration. Making its findings public yesterday the committee said that Ball’s contrition, the calibre of those providing endorsements of his character…
Struck-off liquidator David Iannuzzi. In the end, 10 years on the sidelines looks better than a lifetime ban. So for David Nicholas Iannuzzi, the Sydney liquidator who for the last two years and three months has defended wide ranging allegations of serious misconduct, a decade of ignominy as a struck-off ex-liquidator commenced yesterday. Delivering his long awaited judgement, Federal Court judge Angus Stewart ordered that…
Amanda Young. It’s been almost 12 months since her employment was terminated but challenges continue for suspended liquidator Amanda Young. Last week ASIC referred the former Jirsch Sutherland (Jirsch) partner to a Schedule 2 Disciplinary Committee, alleging misconduct in respect of sections 40-40(1)(f) and (m) of the Insolvency Practice Schedule. Section 40-40(1)(f) deals with an alleged general contravention by a liquidator while (m) involves the…
KPMG’s Stephen Vaughan. KPMG’s Gayle Dickerson. Back in mid-July liquidator David Iannuzzi was scheduled to endure three days of gruelling questioning in a Federal Court witness box. The examination was to be the start of the penultimate battle in a war of attrition that began back in September 2017 when the Commissioner of Taxation (CoT) filed a 92-page originating process that listed a most egregious…
Amanda Young. Former Jirsch Sutherland partner and liquidator Amanda Young has told a CAANZ disciplinary tribunal that almost $200,000 she took from liquidation accounts was owed to her. In June the Disciplinary Tribunal of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) heard the application of the association’s Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) for an interim suspension of Young’s membership. While Young, who did not attend the…
Subject to a RevLiq: Amos Insolvency’s Peter Amos. Editor’s Note: iNO reported in an earlier version of this story that AAF funds would be recovered via the Industry Funding Levy. ASIC has since advised that this is NOT the case. After reporting last week on the appointment by ASIC of two Reviewing Liquidators (RevLiqs) iNO has learned that one of the unfortunates under review is…
Hamilton Murphy’s Stephen Dixon. The old independence bugbear never lets up it seems with AFSA recently gnawing on an apparently conflicted limb attached to registered trustee Stephen Dixon. iNO understands it was the view of the personal insolvency regulator that the Hamilton Murphy partner should not have taken an appointment as trustee of the bankrupt estate of Graeme Charles Diamond, 63 of Guanaba in Queensland,…