Artemis Insolvency’s Peter Dinoris. The bankruptcy regulator has confirmed what INO reported back on March 6, 2019 – Queensland-based trustee Peter Dinoris is potentially facing the chop. Without fanfare the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) has attached a notice on its register of trustees advising that the Inspector General in Bankruptcy had issued Dinoris with a show cause notice and received no response. Accordingly, the…
Brooke Bird’s Robyn Erskine. Veritas Advisory principal David Iannuzzi. It’s well documented that Sydney liquidator David Iannuzzi is defending an action brought by the Commissioner of Taxation (CoT) that aims to end his career. Now a new front in that war has been potentially opened following belated approval of a funding agreement between the CoT and Melbourne-based liquidator Robyn Erskine. In the Federal Court yesterday…
dVT’s Suelen McCallum. dVT’s Riad Tayeh dVT Group duo Suelen McCallum and Riad Tayeh have been fined $10,000 following an investigation by an ARITA Professional Conduct Committee (PCC). ARITA convened the PCC to examine the pair’s acceptance of an appointment as liquidators of Hemisphere Technologies (HT), which these days is known as ACN 152 546 453 Pty Ltd. Their appointment took place in January 2017,…
Artemis Insolvency’s Peter Dinoris. Last week INO reported that certain sunburned sources north of the Tweed were insisting Artemis Insolvency’s Peter Dinoris was getting out of the game. While the man himself is reportedly on leave and yet to respond to INO’s inquires, we did confirm yesterday that Dinoris recently offloaded almost a third of his bankruptcy files to McLeod Partners‘ partner, Bill Karageozis. Principal…
Veritas Advisory principal David Iannuzzi. The Federal Court has dismissed an application for leave to appeal orders for a judicial inquiry into the conduct of Sydney liquidator David Iannuzzi. Last week three judges of the Federal Court of Appeal ruled that none of the submissions made by Iannuzzi’s legal representatives had persuaded them that in ordering an inquiry into Iannuzzi’s conduct last year, Federal Court…
Cor Cordis partner Mark Hutchins. It can’t be too often that an insolvency practitioner is responsible for the laying of criminal charges against his or her own referrer, but the resume of Cor Cordis partner Mark Hutchins now boasts this curious distinction. This follows the news that a company director and two pre-insolvency advisors appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court last week on charges including…
Deregistered Trustee David John Leigh. Don’t you love this initiative by the regulators to make registered practitioners responsible if a disgraced ex-trustee or liquidator weedles their way back into the game? The thought occurred to INO following Wednesday’s announcement by ASIC in regards to David John Leigh, the former PPB Advisory partner who misappropriated $800,000 from a liquidation account between July and November in 2017. The committee…
Amanda Young. ASIC is taking no chances that Amanda Young might inadvertently succumb to a bout of her oft-professed wanderlust, obtaining orders requiring the ex-Jirsch Sutherland partner to surrender her passport. As revealed in In the matter of Amanda Young [2018] NSWSC 2012 the corporate regulator has only just commenced an investigation into the alleged misappropriation by Young of almost $240,000. INO broke the news on…
Amanda Young. Suspended liquidator Amanda Young-Arnautovic has lodged a claim against Jirsch Sutherland in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) after the insolvency firm terminated her employment before Christmas amid allegations of fraud. Insolvency News Online (INO) has learned that Young-Arnautovic is making the claim under the Fair Work Act’s general protections provision which relate to workplace rights, broadly described as employment entitlements and the freedom to exercise and enforce those…
Deregistered Trustee David John Leigh. When one has already sought to have one’s registration as a trustee in bankruptcy suspended, a show cause notice (SCN) from the personal insolvency regulator is unlikely to shock. Such then was the apparent indifference with which admitted fraudster David John Leigh, the former PPB Advisory partner who in 2017 filched $800,000 from a liquidation account for reasons undisclosed, treated…