As the guardian of fair business practice, the Austrailan Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has the role of advocating for the paying customer, but all its duties it must build, maintain, and police a liquid marketplace for competitive participants by applying the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). In this case the ACCC were in the mode of observing and applying Competition Enforcement. In August 2016, NQCranes entered into a written distributorship agreement w

Operation Elbrus, commonly referred to as the Plutus Payroll fraud, was one of the largest tax-fraud investigations undertaken in Australia. The operation was led jointly by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) through the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce (SFCT). The alleged offending read like the most improbable Hollywood script with conspiracy spreading across a web of facades, and lead by caricature-like key players which included

In March 2024, a 25‑year-old Sydney man was sentenced at the Central Local Court (NSW) for a scheme of internal cyber-fraud targeting the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM). The offender was employed as an IT contractor through a third-party provider and had privileged access to the museum’s accounts payable system. background Cases of financial impropriety among those responsible for the company accounts, trusts, and estates, is long held, but in this case the fruit