High-flying trading boss hit with 16 charges

High-flying trading boss hit with 16 charges

Former Berndale Capital Securities boss Stavro D’Amore and the trading house’s director Daniel Kirby are accused of misusing client funds and providing false information.

  • bySarah Danckert

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Former trading boss Stavro D’Amore charged with money laundering offences

Former trading boss Stavro D’Amore charged with money laundering offences

Stavro D’Amore was once the CEO of the fourth-biggest seller of high-risk financial derivatives in Australia.

  • bySarah Danckert
Gone in 38 seconds:Regulator using AI to reject serious criminal complaints
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Gone in 38 seconds:Regulator using AI to reject serious criminal complaints

Thousands of reports are filed each year alleging wrongdoing by people connected to failed companies,but ASIC only pursues less than 3 per cent.

  • byNick Bonyhady andSarah Danckert
Missing millions:Deloitte partner allegedly duped colleagues out of $60m
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Missing millions:Deloitte partner allegedly duped colleagues out of $60m

Amberjit Endow promised high-profile investors – including a former AFL champion – returns of up to 40 per cent in six months for lending him money to purchase what he claimed were Indian government-issued bonds.

  • byNick McKenzie andSimone Fox Koob
FTX fiasco symbolises venture capital cult out of control

FTX fiasco symbolises venture capital cult out of control

Collapsed crypto exchange FTX’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried fitted every entrepreneurial cliché of the past two decades - and the finance industry loved him for it.

  • byMatthew Lynn
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty,faces October trial

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty,faces October trial

Experts say a plea deal for the cryptocurrency exchange boss is unlikely as US authorities tend to negotiate with lower-level staff.

  • byAva Benny-Morrison andChris Dolmetsch
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The incredible story of USG’s queen bee and her Australian fixers

The incredible story of USG’s queen bee and her Australian fixers

The collapse of a major trading house in Australia has again raised questions about the practice of selling financial services licences.

  • bySarah Danckert
Elizabeth Holmes’ former partner sentenced to 13 years in jail in Theranos case

Elizabeth Holmes’ former partner sentenced to 13 years in jail in Theranos case

‘Sunny’ Balwani was handed a slightly longer sentence than that given to former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes,who was his lover and accomplice in one of Silicon Valley’s biggest scandals.

  • byMichael Liedtke
Glencore hit with $490m fine for bribing its way across Africa

Glencore hit with $490m fine for bribing its way across Africa

A London court heard details of employees and agents using private jets to transfer cash that was hand-delivered to officials in African countries to get access to oil.

  • byJack Farchy andJonathan Browning
Former Uber security chief found guilty of hiding hack from authorities

Former Uber security chief found guilty of hiding hack from authorities

Joe Sullivan was charged after failing to disclose to authorities in 2016 that he had learned of a breach that affected the Uber accounts of more than 57 million riders and drivers.

  • byCade Metz
White shoe shock:Former rich lister turned jailbird pleads guilty to further charges

White shoe shock:Former rich lister turned jailbird pleads guilty to further charges

Craig Gore,one of the country’s most colourful businessmen,has pleaded guilty to a second set of charges after losing his bid to appeal his fraud conviction earlier this year.

  • bySarah Danckert