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Managed investment schemes operator ordered into liquidation
The Federal Court has ordered PE Capital Funds Management Ltd into liquidation after finding that the firm breached the law by operating managed investment schemes without an AFS licence and by engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. From around 2015, PE Capital Funds Management used the money raised by its managed investment schemes to fund eight mixed-use commercial and residential

14 year old pays off drug debt with stolen items at 25% face value only
Just when you think you’ve heard it all something else pops up that you would never have thought of, not the honest folk at least. Woolworths stores are losing millions of dollars of shoplifted goods every year despite them having cctv and extra staff rostered. A concerned parent sat down with TVN yesterday and detailed how their 14 year old

TVN visits Rosny Library
We visited the Rosny library this afternoon and had a chat with some of the friendly staff and patrons. The lovely smaller library was so quiet, neat and clean. When we visited this afternoon it had 14 patrons inside quietly reading or on computers some with children, we spoke to these people and only 4 of them had utilised the

Man sentenced over $1 million cash and three luxury vehicles suspected to be the proceeds of crime.
A 37-year-old man was sentenced to 12 months’ jail by the Perth District Court yesterday following an investigation into more than $1 million cash and three luxury vehicles suspected to be the proceeds of crime. The Mount Pleasant man had pleaded guilty in July 2021 to dealing in property suspected of being the proceeds of crime, as well as a

STATE OF TASMANIA v H 9 FEBRUARY 2022 COMMENTS ON PASSING SENTENCE
H , you plead guilty to trafficking in a controlled substance. I also agreed to deal with your plea of guilty to the summary charges of possessing, using and cultivating cannabis. On 14 May 2020 members of the drug squad searched your property in. They found 17 separate amounts of cannabis in the main shed ranging in weight from 1.2

STATE OF TASMANIA v W 8 FEBRUARY 2022 COMMENTS ON PASSING SENTENCE
W , you plead guilty to trafficking in a controlled substance. I also agreed to deal with your plea of guilty to three summary charges, using methylamphetamine, possessing cannabis and possessing pseudoephedrine. Just after 9 pm on 21 June 2020 the police found you at your partner’s home in Launceston. They found a total of 144.28 grams of methylamphetamine in

National Australia Day Council has denied having “threatening” conversations
The National Australia Day Council has denied having “threatening” conversations with Grace Tame after the 2021 Australian of the Year said a senior member of a government-funded organisation had urged her to refrain from criticising Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Mr Morrison hit out at the unnamed person who Ms Tame claimed spoke to her last August, calling on them to

Firearm aimed at motorist
Tasmania Police are investigating an incident where a motorcycle was traveling south on the Brooker Highway near Risdon Road intersection when the pillion passenger aimed a firearm at a motorist at around 7.15pm. If you witnessed this or can assist Police please phone Police 131 444 or Crimestoppers 1800 333 000.

Richard Pusey charged over allegedly posting image of dead police officer on Porsche website
Richard Pusey, the man jailed for filming four dying police officers after a crash on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway in 2020, has been charged again after allegedly posting an image of one of the dead officers on the website of a Melbourne Porsche dealership. The Age can reveal the 44-year-old has been charged with two counts of using a telecommunications device to

“The most likely terrorist attack scenario in Australia over the next 12 months continues to be a lone-actor attack” ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess
While there were no terrorist attacks domestically last year, there were two major disruptions of violent extremist attacks. Globally, violent extremist attacks remain a frequent occurrence. And the transnational nature of terrorism means that events in distant places, such as the fall of the government in Afghanistan, can reverberate much closer to home. We are monitoring this carefully. While we do

Melissa Caddick’s husband hit with restraining order over ASIC investigator
Anthony Koletti, the husband of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick, has been hit with an apprehended violence order application on behalf of the corporate regulator’s lead investigator into the conwoman’s $23 million fraud. NSW Police have applied for the restraining order on behalf of Isabella Allen, the ASIC investigator leading the corporate regulator’s case into the 49-year-old Dover Heights woman who

Plumbers fixing leaking toilet alerted police to $1.1m cash, $44m ice in ‘safe house’
Police have released images of a man they would like to speak to after a report from workers fixing a leaking toilet pipe led to the discovery of $1.1 million in cash and boxes of the drug ice with an estimated street value of $44 million. Officers were called to the property on Minter Street, Canterbury, in Sydney’s south-west, about