There’s an intriguing little backstory to last week’s headline event that saw a judge deny Worrells partner Graeme Beattie the role of liquidator of Bux Global Pty Ltd. Beattie accepted the appointment on October 4 following a referral in September from Jirsch Sutherland partner Daniel Civil. What he didn’t know was that on the same day in the Federal Court in Perth, orders were made appointing Ferrier Hodgson’s…
Hall Chadwick’s aspirations to administer deeds of company arrangement (DoCAs) over the Majella group have been incinerated, with the creditors most critically burned by the property group’s implosion pairing up to vote down resolutions that would’ve seen a meeting adjourned so as to allow time for the issues impeding the DoCAs to be removed. Instead, Glenn Shannon, Richard Albarran and David Ingram must content themselves with…
Correction & Clarification Glenn Crisp has been mentioned a second time during public examinations being run by Pitcher Partners Andrew Yeo and Gess Rambaldi as they investigate a $100 million tax-avoidance and phoenix-facilitation racket allegedly masterminded by Melbourne man Phil Whiteman. For the record the Jirsch Sutherland Victoria managing partner is not accused of any wrongdoing and Crisp is one of approximately 100 registered liquidators Australia-wide who accepted…
Trading on a business under a license agreement would seem to be a perfectly normal proposition for insolvency practitioners extracting the last vestiges of value from a failing company but the agreement entered into by Veritas Advisory’s David Iannuzzi and Steve Naidenov as administrators of the MK Floors Group could not be described as normal. For a start, the licensee was a company called Chiswick which is…
Melbourne liquidator Andrew Poulter has picked up the kind of appointment that might be expected to attract close attention. A fortnight ago Poulter filed his Declaration of Independence, Relevant Relationships and Indemnities (DIRRI) in relation to a company called PBDB Services Pty Ltd. The DIRRI revealed that the referrer was fellow Melbourne-based liquidator Ross McDermott, who, in between listening to your correspondent’s enquiries, took the…
Creditors of the Majella group of companies headed by accused fraudster Seb Monsour have received the recommendation from administrators Hall Chadwick that they accept the deed of company arrangement (DoCA) being proposed by the 44 year-old brother-in-law of ex-Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, but this DoCA has some singular and substantial hurdles. On the surface the most significant obstacle would appear to be asset freezing orders obtained earlier…
Western Sydney accountant and insolvency referrer Gerardo “Gerry” Incollingo has denied allegations made by the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (DCoT) that he backdated documents to help controversial property developer Charbel Demian avoid a $35 million tax and penalties bill. In Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Advanced Holdings Pty Ltd & Ors Federal Court Judge Anna Katzmann lays out how on August 21, 2018 she made orders freezing assets controlled by Demian’s Advanced Holdings…
INO’s culinary attache recently made note of Veritas Advisory’s David Iannuzzi and Steve Naidenov enjoying the splendid fare at high end Chinese restaurant Spice Temple, observing that the pair, who are currently being examined by the FEG Recovery Unit in regard to their handling of the MK Floors liquidation, were reportedly relaxed and enjoying their lunch with unidentified guests. The report from our source neatly corresponded with a letter…
What a liquidator and ASIC jointly affirm in an enforceable undertaking (EU), a tax agent can seemingly refute in a few hours of public examination. Such was what INO witnessed last Friday in the Federal Court as accountant and registered tax agent Frank Bruzzano denied ever having provided advice on the solvency or otherwise of any company or client, including Lidcombe Plastering Services Pty Ltd (LPS), its…
Behind the tawdry excitement stoked by tales of escorts and a suspicious fire is the far more intriguing story of how three Hall Chadwick partners came to be appointed voluntary administrators (VAs) of two Majella Group (MG) entities connected to developer Seb Monsour, the controversial brother-in-law of former premier Campbell Newman. Mansour had been planning to develop the heritage-listed Broadway Hotel in the Brisbane suburb of Wooloongabba but he…