The missing alleged mastermind of the Ponzi scheme stole up to $30m, mostly from friends and family, Jason Downing SC, counsel assisting the coroner, told the inquest. He then phoned her best friend and brother Adam Grimley but did not tell them she was missing, to elicit an honest answer. 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. I think Melissa deliberately severed our relationship with Tony so nobody would ever find out the truth.. Her first job after secretarial college was in administration at NRMAs investment division. Were working to restore it. In the weeks after his wife vanished, Mr Koletti told the Federal Court he had just $1.95 left in his only transaction account. Look what she did to the people she professed to love.'. [21], According to Willing, Caddick's disappearance was distressing for many people, including her clients, family and friends. To read more from Good Weekend magazine, visit our page at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times. Forget turnipsnow eat SQUIRREL! Unfortunately, the pause button remained firmly depressed on his aspiring musical ambitions. She then got married to her partner Anthony Koletti in 2013 and was married for seven years. That same day, the investor rang Caddick wanting her money back, saying it was because shed suddenly found a house to buy. On one occasion when the snow was poor at Aspen, the avid skier spent $34,000 decamping the family to Whistler in Canada. Tony studied political science in England, finished his law degree, and was admitted as a solicitor at the persuasion of his wife. He drove a $300,000 Audi R8 and they holidayed as a family each year in Aspen, Colorado. The forever friend, the former boss, the ex-husband: the early victims of fraudster Melissa Caddick. The Morning Edition newsletter is our guide to the days most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. It really does hurt, says Joanna. As of December 4, he had only $1.95 in the bank, the court heard. The husband of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick says he was forced to move in the dead of the night to avoid paparazzi after being evicted from his wife's multi-million dollar mansion.. Anthony Koletti was forced this week to vacate the Dover Heights property after it was placed in the hands of liquidators.. Watch more on this story in the video above Subsequent DNA testing of samples gathered from her toothbrush, as well as from family members, confirmed the foot belonged to Caddick. Her partial remains washed up in a running shoe in February 2021. It was slow and constant. Frustration also appears to be growing for the court-appointed receivers who are trying to sell Ms Caddicks assets but are being prevented from doing so by members of her family who are staking claims on assets including real estate and jewellery. The matter will return to court on May 4. Once accepted, investors deposited money into Malivers Commonwealth Bank account. Were working to restore it. Caddick presented her friend with a bottle of expensive champagne and a Christian Dior scented bathroom deodoriser. Of the $30 million, only about $7 million was returned to clients, leaving as much as $23 million unaccounted for. Sydney forensic psychiatrist Olav Nielssen has dealt with many fraudsters who tell him they know very well that the end will come, but they keep going because its addictive and they cant stop. Prior to that, he had been spending a considerable amount of time at their Edgecliff home rather than the $6.2million mansion where he lives sources said. Melissa, we had everything taken from us. The womans first investment of $1 million had made such a handsome return that by April shed invested a total of $2.5 million. [19] In December 2022, clothing, art, luxury goods and jewellery belonging to Caddick were sold at auction for $860,000.[20]. Her brother Adam is also claiming a stake in the same property, having given his sister $144,000 to help with the mortgage repayments, court documents show. They're not in good health. Two months later, their son was born. If you or anyone you know needs support call Lifeline 131 114. Under the heading YOUR ADVIERS [sic] EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS, Caddick also lied about her achievements, including that she had a masters of business and was a certified member of the Financial Planning Association of Australia. In August 2020, while in a dentists waiting room, this investor struck up a conversation with a fellow patient, also from Sydneys east. In April 2006, Tony was admitted as a solicitor. It was her Sydney hairdresser, Anthony Koletti. The inconsistencies in Kolettis stories include who found his wifes phone and where it was located. She cheated her doting parents Barb and Ted Grimley, her older brother Adam, her aunts, uncles and cousins. Shed call later to say they were in luck a place had become available. [10] In February 2022, Koletti objected to the sale of the house,[11] and the Federal Court gave Caddick's family six weeks to stake their claims over Caddick's house and a penthouse apartment in Edgecliff where Caddick's parents resided. She and Koletti then rented a Rose Bay house with five bedrooms and five bathrooms. Wearing a red jacket and her trademark fire-engine red Chanel lipstick, Caddick would have been thrilled with the headline: A Wise Choice: Australias best planning practice. Another magazine featured Caddicks eight golden rules for finding the right adviser. Your IP: Along with the five bedrooms and a home office, there was a no-expense-spared kitchen and a fabulous roof terrace. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. It was a very, very difficult time for Tony, said another long-time friend of the couple, who recalls that Caddick, whod always been controlling, changed her phone number and unsuccessfully tried to block Tonys access to their son. At a meal at the Caddicks house one time, his wife remarked on the unusual salt and pepper shakers. To this day, PCA aims to help graduates land their perfect job, equipping them with Modern Business Etiquette and Deportment, Dress Sense, and overall Professional Prestige. According to court documents, her friend Joanna, a disability support worker and single mother, was the first to be targeted by Caddick. [2], It has been reported that Caddick did not work when she lived in England and quickly found herself bored with her surroundings. She always felt she was so much more than that.. When his wife starting raising concerns about Caddicks trust fund details and how the CommSec account would be run, her husband received a call from Caddick saying she was putting his possible investment on hold as her husbands cousin had died and she needed to attend his funeral. Behind his back, her friends referred to Koletti as The Handbag or the Toy Boy. We are determined she wont ever take that.. See for yourself by trying this new quiz devised by cardiologists One in five teenage boys or their friends have been offered work supplying drugs by county lines gangs who Head over heels for Kate! "[8], In April 2021, after Caddick's presumed death, ASIC dropped 38 criminal charges against her. I dont believe he has the capacity to know what a financial scheme is. So who's who in Caddick's family? He was living in Singapore, where he worked as a governance consultant. It has been alleged that in 1998, six months after taking the job, she was discovered to have stolen less than $2,000 from the company by forging her boss's signature on several cheques. The shares in which she invested her clients funds never made a loss. 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. On February 21 this year, campers at a remote beach on the South Coast of NSW found a running shoe containing human remains which were later identified as those of Caddick. 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?. The camera pans across boxes on boxes of luxury brands including Dior and Stefano Canturi seized from her safe and to envelopes containing US$4,800 (A$7,100) and others with Hong Kong dollars and UK pounds. He later told friends that when he returned, not only had Caddick cleaned out their house, shed also cleaned out their joint bank accounts. On April 20, 2000, they married at the Garrison Church in Millers Point, Sydney. Caddick (pictured with husband Anthony Koletti) lied about her qualifications and never held a license as a financial advisor when she tricked dozens into 'investing' their life savings 'Like. Koletti shared the same April birthday as his wife but was 11 years her junior. He put down his scissors at a Bondi Junction salon when the pandemic hit last March. Tony commuted daily to London from Essex, to the citys north-east, where his family lived. Mr Koletti's own family claim they only met Caddick a handful of times, his father previously slamming him as 'delusional' about her alleged activities. According to court documents, Mr Caddick said he was making no claim to any funds on his sons behalf. Shes resourceful, he tells Kyneur. I am his biological father and court endorsed guardian for health, schooling and anything else, wrote Mr Caddick in his email. Thats a dog park. 'I kind of just sit there and go, we got done out of money. In his December 2020 affidavit filed in court, he stated: I currently do not earn an income., Caddick was constantly on the hunt for fresh prey. After a short period of time, the former couple parted ways and divorced other. After graduating from high school, Caddick enrolled in a secretarial and business administration course at Patrick's College Australia in Sydney. Most of her victims were her family and friends, many of whom lost their life savings. Meanwhile, his wife had contacted the Sydney woman whose financial services licence Caddick had been using without permission. Caddick explained that her brother Adam was helping them out financially. By Daniel Piotrowski for Daily Mail Australia, Published: 15:04 GMT, 14 February 2021 | Updated: 15:24 GMT, 14 February 2021. 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However, court documents show this is disputed by the boys father Anthony Caddick, who wrote to Mr Hayter on January 14 stating that while Mr Koletti was the boys stepfather he had no other legal rights and he doubted Mr Koletti has any idea what hes doing. You can survive without your foot.[24] In an October 2021 interview, Koletti claimed that Caddick never stole any money and that someone killed his wife. [4] She was subsequently declared deceased.[5]. They married in a ceremony at the Garrison Church in Millers Point, Sydney, on 20 April 2000. [27] By December 2022 she was declared dead. I was also aware he attended the coastline at Raleigh Reserve [and] he had taken a photograph of a shoe print, the detective said. Tony Caddick, Caddick's first husband, was a builder's laborer from England. Their house in Lugarno, in Sydneys south, was surrounded by bushland and backed onto the Georges River. A group of 13 investors has urged receivers to immediately sell Caddick's mortgaged properties: the $6.2million property where she, husband Anthony Koletti and her son lived; and the $2.55million Edgecliff parents her elderly parents and older brother call home. 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. He said during the November 2020 police raid on their house he observed his wife. She later received the house in the divorce settlement, selling it for $1.67 million in late 2013. Blood was always thicker than water for the missing Dover Heights woman, who counted her husband, brother and parents as her closest confidants. Koletti is a hairdresser who she met when she went to do her hair. 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. He was photographed meeting Caddick's parents for an 'animated' two hour discussion on Sunday. Kolettis family must have the money, Tony would suggest. Mellissa met Anthony when she went to get her hair done from him as he is a great hairdresser, and he eventually became her go-to, No.1 stylist. She didnt believe them and ran away with him. Her brother Adam rang Joanna begging her to try to talk some sense into Melissa. The lavish reception was held at Taronga Zoo, the Grimleys showcasing the glorious Sydney Harbour backdrop to the grooms family, visiting from England. The Grimleys lawyers wrote to Mr Hayter in December saying Mr Grimley, 87, has very serious medical issues as well as having to endure the first anniversary of the loss of his daughter. Family of alleged conwoman Melissa Caddick want to be heard at inquest into disappearance, Melissa Caddick inquest: police officer tells court husband wasnt crying real tears after disappearance, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. She was still living at home in Lugarno when she began dating a man shed met at Friday night drinks in a pub in the city. After the divorce from Caddick, she tied the knot with her boyfriend, Anthony Koletti. Melissa Caddick's husband speaks with police on the day he reported her missing - video "You can't be too careful these days," Koletti is heard saying as he unlocks one of the many doors in. Caddick, he recalls, was bubbly [and] super-efficient. The other patient was horrified and confided that Caddick had been fraudulently using her licence and that ASIC had been notified. Joanna and her daughter were shocked when they later discovered the Dolce & Gabbana dress shed worn had cost $2500. She always looked dotingly at her son, whom she boasted was perfect and a dream baby who did everything by the book. Tony, who had studied political science in England . His father Rodo would later tell 60 Minutes, Anthony is a hairdresser. [7], In later years, Caddick's extravagant spending drew suspicion among her acquaintances. Husband of Melissa Caddick, Anthony Koletti, arrives for the inquest into her death at the NSW coroners court. No record of Caddick having ever checked into the Meriton exists but its not clear whether police checked Kolettis name or the timeline prior to their wedding. Caddick's brother, Adam Grimley, has been left to clean up the mess, as manager of her estate. It is understood that rather than pursue prosecution, the company gave Caddick the option of leaving the office without the police being summoned or the money being returned. [2], Caddick's first husband, Tony Caddick, was a builder's labourer originally from England. She didnt offer to repay it and rather than going to the trouble of calling the police, the firm didnt ask her to. His estranged wife, meanwhile, had taken up residence in the Kensington home the couple had bought for $1.56 million in 2009. One of Caddicks feet was found inside a shoe on Bournda Beach on the NSW South Coast in February. EXCLUSIVE - Revealed: Carol Kirkwood's secret toyboy fianc - 13 years her junior - is a divorced police 'Digital antidepressants' to be rolled out on the NHS as health bosses give eight apps and web-based therapy BBC journalists vote 'overwhelmingly' to stage series of strikes in move that could sabotage corporation's 'This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen!' Hed got what he wanted and didnt need her any more. Caddick was distraught and is believed to have suffered some kind of a breakdown. The foot's southern location matched the tidal and drift pattern modelling undertaken by the marine police, raising the possibility that if a body had entered the water near Dover Heights around the time of her disappearance it would likely reach the shore somewhere near the south-coast town of Bermagui, which is just 40km north of Tathra. He told the Federal Court that hed been employed part-time as a hairdresser until the COVID lockdown in late March, 2020. Tony, by now working as a corporate lawyer, asked to be transferred to Sydney to be closer to his son. Once back in Sydney, however, a spot was found. " [Name redacted] resides with me full time. The first thread in the unravelling of Melissa Caddicks world appeared in November 2019, when the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) received an anonymous tip-off that a Melissa Caddick from Dover Heights in Sydneys east was operating a financial services business using someone elses Australian Financial Services Licence. Recently tendered Federal Court documents show Anthony Koletti, 39, Melissa Caddicks second husband, is claiming he is the guardian of Ms Caddicks teenage son. She fell for him while he was doing her hair close to a decade ago. The messages revealed shed been paying for her hairdresser to fly around the world for their assignations. That, with hindsight, was a crying shame: a criminal record might have forestalled what was to come. Ted and Barbara Grimley sold their house in Sydney's south and moved into an apartment in Edgecliff, in the city's inner east, in order to be closer to their daughter. On April 20, 2000, they married at the Garrison Church in Millers Point, Sydney. When the day of reckoning came for Caddick, Parmegiani speculates that she knew she was facing a lengthy period in jail. In one version Koletti said he left a Post-it Note beside it with a pair of earrings lying around, not confiscated by Asic investigators. One friend recalls going to dinner later at the newlyweds beautifully renovated Paddington terrace, which had luxury cars in the garage. Mr Grimley wrote to the Federal Court last year and urged a judge to hike up the living allowance for Mr Koletti and Caddick's teenage son. 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. Caddick vanished on 12 November 2020, the morning after ASIC agents and the Australian Federal Police raided her home in Dover Heights. CBD sufferers report having negative emotions such as depression, anxiety and low self-esteem, with shopping providing feelings of relief or euphoria. Footage from raid at Melissa Caddick's home in 2020 shows jewellery and foreign currency video, All high value: video of raid on Melissa Caddicks Sydney home shows extensive jewellery collection, Australia news live blog follow todays developments. Alex Chapman / Spotlight Exclusives / Updated 16.10.2021 Up Next 4:14 This is a gift for you, the note allegedly read. On this same trip, Caddick met a woman from Woollahra in Sydney who expressed interest in investing. 9:47pm Sep 27, 2022. This was caught on camera as she detailed to officers rows of designer earrings, bracelets, cufflinks and two bejewelled necklaces of sapphires and diamonds worth up to $100,000. She did brilliant work, the clients loved her, he says. Mr. But while shed learnt a valuable lesson, it wasnt the one her friends and family imagined. The application was granted, and the following day the Australian Federal Police raided Caddicks home in Wallangra Road, Dover Heights. When copies of the cheques for the suspicious payments were located at a National Australia Bank branch in Pitt Street in Sydneys CBD, it became clear that Caddick had been forging her bosss signature. 'It was about the way he massaged her head,' a source familiar with the family claimed. Breeding prawns in his home aquarium also amounted to naught. Its like saying I found a footprint on Bondi beach.. A detective has told an inquest Melissa Caddick's husband Anthony Koletti gave conflicting accounts of her disappearance. The next time she featured in IFA, some 17 years later, it was for catastrophic breaches of her own advice. Unaware that this was happening, the friend continued a working arrangement with Caddick in which Caddick referred clients to her friend for insurance broking services. Thus on November 10, 2020, they made an urgent application to the Federal Court to freeze her assets and seize her passport. An inquest into Ms Caddick's suspected death has heard the alleged fraud amounted to between $20 and $30 million. Tony later learned from a mutual friend that Caddick had actually travelled to Paris to meet with Anthony Koletti, her hairdresser from Sydney, and discovered that she had paid for his international travel expenses to continue their affair. In 2010, the family moved abroad to Essex to live closer to Tony's family while he commuted daily to his job in London. It was announced that Caddick's possessions, including her $6 million Sydney house, would be sold in an effort to repay the 72 clients who claimed that they were owed more than A$23 million. [3], Caddick vanished the day after ASIC agents and Australian Federal Police officers raided her home at Dover Heights, Sydney, New South Wales, on the suspicion that she had misappropriated approximately A$30 million from investors, including her friends and family. Mr Koletti, 38, and Caddick, 49, have been married for seven years. 'And I think they're realising that they're as much victims to that trust as well.'. She married Mr Koletti the following year. Koletti is due to give evidence when the inquest resumes on 26 September. Now the retirees' $2million home is at risk of being sold from under them. Melissa Caddick, a 49-year-old mother, mysteriously disappeared from her $ 6.2 million mansion in Dover Heights in the eastern suburbs of Sydney on November 12 and has not been seen since. Buoyed by such returns, investors would put more money in and, via word of mouth, talk of Caddicks impressive returns spread. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Court documents tendered since then indicate Mr Caddick is paying his sons private school fees. Suicide is one of the most likely theories. Not only did she forge her clients signatures where required, but when a Justice of the Peace was needed to witness that other signatures were genuine, she also forged the signature of her father-in-law, Rodo Koletti, a JP. Like any profession, financial planning has unscrupulous operators, she warned in 2004. It is understood she deposited these funds into 37 bank accounts. When a friend organised a lunch to introduce her to another owner in the building, Caddick begged off at the last minute, saying shed been hit by a snowboarder. Mr Hayter, representing receivers Bruce Gleeson and Daniel Soire, replied saying his clients understood that this is an extremely difficult time and no doubt very stressful given the Grimleys age and health, but the fact remained their $1 million contribution was used by Ms Caddick to fund her lavish lifestyle. I thought that was extraordinary. Every single member of my family plus another couple I had invited. All up, Joannas family was stung for about $10 million. If Im going to end it, its going to be here, her friend recalled Caddick telling her. The part-time hairdresser and DJ told police he was too busy working from home to make a statement in person but Sgt Trent Riley insisted on visiting the house in Sydneys eastern suburbs and switched on his bodycam, recorded on 13 November. Caddick knew it was illegal to operate without such a licence, which can attract a $22,000 fine and two years jail, and lacked the requisite qualifications to apply for one herself. He said he found his behaviour extremely strange and unusual. She always had that desire to be better than she was even from primary school. Over the next 13 hours, she watched as an endless parade of her precious clothes, handbags, shoes and jewellery was taken away. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Following his graduation from the University of NSW, Adam worked as a chemist at Esso and later moved to Singapore, where he became a partner specialising in chemicals and energy with global professional services company Accenture. In September 2019 another Perth surgeon and his wife were about to invest with Caddick. Wed be at dinner and she would say, Thats a beautiful butter knife, and shed steal it, says one long-term friend. They werent real tears, in my opinion Im very confident they werent real tears, he said in evidence. He said his wife, who was the primary breadwinner in our family, was worried about the health risk to the family so she wanted him to remain at home and to attend to household duties. 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. Her solution had been to ask a former work friend if she could use hers. Caddick, he suggests, had a shopping addiction, which is known as compulsive buying disorder (CBD). In late 2012, Caddicks marriage to Tony Caddick dissolved following her affair with Koletti. One of her subsequent victims, Cheryl Kraft Reid, recalls asking Caddick how a financial planner could possibly afford the extravagant life she led. After leaving school, Caddick enrolled in a secretarial and business administration course at Patricks College Australia (PCA) in the city. In her book, I Shop Therefore I Am, April Lane Benson writes that perfectionism, dishonesty, insecurity and the need to gain control have been linked to the disorder. Their son, born in 2006, was aged 14 at the time of Caddick's disappearance in 2020. At Lugarno Public and then Peakhurst High, there was nothing about her that stood out. Tony Caddick, Caddick's first husband, was a builder's laborer from England. Speaking to Ben Fordham about 2GB, NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said detectives believed she was alive in the case and examined . Melissa's older brother had only recently returned to Australia for health reasons. Anthony Koletti and Melissa Caddick and her son on the ski slopes. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. No date for a coronial inquest has been set. Caddick wanted to be able to recommend property and shares in which her clients could invest. Caddicks vivid outfit at the low-key event was the subject of much discussion. 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