[26] Alternatively, it has been theorized that Koletti was assisting her in hiding. The husband of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick has officially vacated the couple's luxury mansion in eastern Sydney. The mindset of a lot of fraudsters is that if you are stupid enough to fall for my game, my trick, then you deserve what you get. The longer a fraudster gets away with it, he says, the more invincible they feel. Her personal trainer introduced her to another of his clients, a well-regarded financial adviser who was looking to train someone up as an office manager at Wise Financial Services. Acrimonious words have been exchanged over the guardianship of the teenage son of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick, Federal Court documents reveal. On April 20, 2000, they married at the Garrison Church in Millers Point, Sydney. 85.214.140.250 While the other new mothers expressed their doubts and complained about lack of sleep, Melissa never let her guard down. Caddick, he recalls, was bubbly [and] super-efficient. One of Caddicks feet was found inside a shoe on Bournda Beach on the NSW South Coast in February. In 2002 Caddick borrowed $750,000 to buy a 25 per cent stake in the business, which was majority owned by global banking giant ING. Only four days after her $6.2 million purchase of the Wallangra Road house, the family jetted off to New York for Easter. I was also aware he attended the coastline at Raleigh Reserve [and] he had taken a photograph of a shoe print, the detective said. Between 2012 and 2020, Caddick had convinced more than 60 people to entrust a combined $30 million of their savings to her sham wealth management business, Maliver, none of which she was actually investing on their behalf. She always had that desire to be better than she was even from primary school. At 6am on November 11, the Federal Police had shocked Caddick, her husband and her 14-year-old son when they arrived at their home bearing search warrants. 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He told the Federal Court that hed been employed part-time as a hairdresser until the COVID lockdown in late March, 2020. Subsequent DNA testing of samples gathered from her toothbrush, as well as from family members, confirmed the foot belonged to Caddick. Using someone elses licence and, instead of legitimately investing the money through her company Maliver, the self-appointed financial adviser allegedly funded her own lavish lifestyle and excessive spending on jewellery, designer clothing, sports cars, overseas getaways and multimillion-dollar homes. Caddicks $6.2million Dover Heights home.Credit:Kate Geraghty. The fiction that her husband was a controlling narcissist, and cheating on her, and that her brother Adam had to fly to England to rescue her and her son, was a tale she repeated widely. Husband of Melissa Caddick, Anthony Koletti, arrives for the inquest into her death at the NSW coroners court. The messages revealed shed been paying for her hairdresser to fly around the world for their assignations. Riley was also bewildered why Koletti described the clothes his wife left the house in, given nobody saw her leave. On New Years Eve 2013, Caddicks family and friends were invited to her surprise wedding to Koletti, then 31, whom shed met at Joh Baileys hair salon in Westfield, Bondi Junction. And how are they dealing with a situation that none of them asked for? After Caddick had been there about six months, someone from the firms interstate head office queried discrepancies showing up between invoices and payments. Melissa Caddick had found her niche. She made herself appear more exclusive by telling potential investors that her books were full. (ABC News) 'Where are they going to go? In refusing the receivers access to the Dover Heights home, Mr Koletti recently told the court I need all the money that I can get and that he could not afford to take any days off work to let them into his home as I am trying to support a young child. Although the NSW Coroner is yet to make a ruling on her fate, police believe that within hours of the raid, Caddick threw herself off the cliffs only 150 metres from her home. Her friend, who was also a victim of Caddicks investment scam, now sees her claims in a different light. She later convinced Joanna to liquidate her share portfolio and hand the proceeds to Caddick to invest for her, too. He said during the November 2020 police raid on their house he observed his wife. The cliffs where police believe Caddick took her own life.Credit:Wolter Peeters. For each new client, she then created a bogus CommSec share trading account, these fake accounts featuring six-digit numbers where the genuine CommSec account numbers have eight. Her pitch to Joanna was that since Caddick was already making money buying and selling shares, it was no trouble to do it for both of them. Buoyed by such returns, investors would put more money in and, via word of mouth, talk of Caddicks impressive returns spread. At 5.30 the next morning, Caddicks son heard the front door close. Despite the tumultuous events, when Joanna texted her suggesting a lunch date with their mothers, Caddick had texted back the single-word reply and two kisses. Four police officers working on the case have now testified that no evidence points to Koletti having injured or killed his wife. Fraudsters see themselves as the predator, the others being the prey, he says. The womans first investment of $1 million had made such a handsome return that by April shed invested a total of $2.5 million. He knew his former wife hadnt earned it, says his friend. During an eight-year period, from October 2012 until 2019, it is believed Caddick misappropriated A$30 million in client funds which primarily came from family and friends. Melissa Caddicks husband, Anthony Koletti, in bodycam footage taken by NSW police at the couples Dover Heights home. [22], How Caddick's foot ended up in the ocean is unknown; nothing has been ruled out by NSW Police, including murder, suicide and the possibility she faked her own death. This article will tell you more about Melissa. Melissa Caddick's husband Anthony Koletti voices belief she was murdered in first interview since conwoman vanished When Melissa Caddick's foot washed up on a NSW beach, it should have offered answers. Because of COVID-19, it was a quiet affair, just family and a couple of friends, held at the St George Motor Boat Club at Sans Souci in Sydneys south. Now that she was independently wealthy, she was offering her investment services to help people, she told Kraft Reid. At a meal at the Caddicks house one time, his wife remarked on the unusual salt and pepper shakers. In 2016, one of the Perth surgeons was going through a bitter divorce and asked Caddick about making alternative arrangements for the trustee of his self-managed super fund. Koletti is due to give evidence when the inquest resumes on 26 September. Years later, when their son would tell his dad about flying first class or in private jets with his mother, Tony and his friend would puzzle about where the money was coming from. 9:47pm Sep 27, 2022. ASIC recorded this single, unsourced complaint about Caddick operating without her own licence, but took no action. A crime scene was established 19 days after Caddick was reported missing. Although there were only the two of them in the office, she dressed immaculately. When Koletti took 30 hours to report to police that his wife was missing, Caddicks cousin offered that, due to the control she exerted in the relationship, Koletti would have been afraid of doing the wrong thing. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a11664eb9b291de The next time she featured in IFA, some 17 years later, it was for catastrophic breaches of her own advice. Every single member of my family plus another couple I had invited. All up, Joannas family was stung for about $10 million. One of her subsequent victims, Cheryl Kraft Reid, recalls asking Caddick how a financial planner could possibly afford the extravagant life she led. Clients were sent a seven-page Maliver Financial Services Guide in which Caddick promised to maximise client outcomes while working within the law. It was just happy to see the back of Melissa Caddick. Anthony Koletti, the husband of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick, has told a Sydney court that he objects to the sale of the family home his wife bought for $6.2 million, secured by a deposit . Caddicks vivid outfit at the low-key event was the subject of much discussion. Years later, she was surprised to run into Caddick at a private boys school in Sydneys east. She would talk a little bit and then lick her lips, talk a little bit and then lick her lipsIm going, Oh god, whats wrong with this woman?. Breeding prawns in his home aquarium also amounted to naught. As Daily Mail Australia revealed on Tuesday, Mr Koletti has turned to his in-laws, Ted and Barbara, for support, rather than his immediate family. Two months later, their son was born. Upon being confronted by Tony, Caddick cleaned out their home in Essex, emptied their joint bank accounts, and moved back to Sydney with their son in January 2012. [4] She was subsequently declared deceased.[5]. He drove a second-hand Hyundai and rented a small apartment in Alexandria. Caddick wanted to be able to recommend property and shares in which her clients could invest. I think Melissa deliberately severed our relationship with Tony so nobody would ever find out the truth.. Melissa Caddick was never seen alive again. In late 2019, her brother Adam travelled to Australia from Singapore for a hip replacement. 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The comments below have been moderated in advance. Happily signing a five-year non-compete clause, she recouped her original $750,000 investment and left the firms St Leonards office in northern Sydney. The case of Melissa Caddick and her missing millions has transfixed not just the eastern Sydney suburbs that was her milieu but the wider Australian population, ever since it emerged in November 2020 that the 49-year-old had been running a Ponzi scheme. 5 min read. [2], Shortly afterwards, Caddick was hired as a financial advisor for Wise Financial Services, a subsidiary of ING, and eventually purchased a 25% stake in the business after borrowing $750,000. If she had had a brain snap and stolen the money, I could cope with that better than knowing the number of times she looked me in the eye as I thanked her for making such a big difference to my life and to my children. 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