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AWB oil-for-food scandal, a court has heard. Criminal charges over the affair may still be laid by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, despite the inter-agency taskforce ruling them out, the Supreme Court was told yesterday. February...
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Centro property group is expected to put officers of several failed companies on notice that they could also be facing a legal showdown. The civil suit launched by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission represents one of the most ambitious...
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Centro Properties was one of the first high profile victims of the credit crisis, and an early case study about the dangers of bad timing and excessive debt...Today, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission pounced on seven of Centro's current...
Tags: Centro Properties Ltd, Centro Retail Trust, Centro Property Trust, Federal Court, ASIC, investments commission, centro directors, financial officer, chiefs financial
Asbestos Injuries Compensation Fund would be unlikely to fully compensate victims of the company's asbestos products for the next two years. The company's chief executive, Louis Gries, said its ability to fund the scheme had been weakened by the housing...
Tags: James Hardie, NSW Supreme Court, Hardie Industries, hardie directors, investments commission, asbestos compensate
Forrest should be disqualified from being a company director and be fined 4.4 million Australian dollars ($3 million), the Australia Securities and Investments Commission said. Fortescue, Australia's third-largest iron ore exporter, should be fined an...
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THE sharemarket regulator has extended the short-selling ban for financial stocks after an escalation of the banking crisis in Europe sparked a global shares sell-off this week. The ban, scheduled to be lifted on January 27, would remain in place until...
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GE Money, a subsidiary of the giant General Electric Company, which lends money to retail customers making substantial purchases. The loans include conditions such as the imposition of interest in excess of 20 per cent from the day goods were first taken...
Tags: GE Money, debts collectors, debts collection, investments commission