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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.
Key points:
- Melissa Caddick is alleged to have defrauded about $20 million from her friends and associates
- A former friend described Ms Caddick as a “sociopath”
- Police have distanced themselves from theories that Ms Caddick may still be alive
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…
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