Anthony Koletti, the husband of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick, has been hit with an apprehended violence order application on behalf of the corporate regulator’s lead investigator into the con woman’s $23 million fraud.
NSW Police have applied for the restraining order on behalf of Isabella Allen, the ASIC investigator leading the corporate regulator’s case into the 49-year-old Dover Heights woman who disappeared after officials raided her home in November 2020 following a tip off.
Melissa Caddick and her husband Anthony Koletti celebrate their joint birthdays on April 21, 2020. Credit:
No conditions are yet attached to the application which will be heard at the Downing Centre Local Court on 23 February. NSW Police declined to comment. AVOs can stop defendants from contacting or approaching the protected person and being within a certain distance of their home or workplace.
ASIC has alleged that Ms Caddick claimed to be a financial advisor purporting to invest the more than $30 million from friends and family in shares, but instead ran a ponzi scheme and spent more than $23 million on a lavish lifestyle of real estate, overseas holidays, luxury cars and jewellery.
Months after she went missing, a shoe containing human remains washed up on a south coast beach with fragments later identified as belonging to Ms Caddick.
The Australian reported that Mr Koletti said he was warned by police in August last year after he sent Ms Allen four texts last year requesting that she return a computer server seized by regulators.
“I have no idea why they would be taking an AVO out, I guess it’s ASIC just throwing their weight around to try and make me look like some kind of villain,” Mr Koletti reportedly told The Australian.
Mr Koletti said he hadn’t been in contact with anyone from ASIC for months.
“I haven’t contacted them in, my god, like, at least six months ago, maybe eight months ago. It’s been ages. It’s just ridiculous,” he said.
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