Melissa Caddick’s court case must go ahead despite alleged fraudster’s death, ASIC says

Australia’s financial regulator says a looming Federal Court hearing into Melissa Caddick’s company should proceed “as a priority”, just hours after police confirmed the businesswoman was dead.

Campers found the decomposed foot of Ms Caddick, 49, washed up on a remote beach on the NSW South Coast on Sunday, more than three months after she went missing from her home at Dover Heights, in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs.

Investigators from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said…