Last November, he publicly called for the 'communities of Australia' to come together, find Melissa and bring her home but has kept his counsel since. But a source familiar with the family said Adam was unable to return to the south east Asian metropolis due to Covid. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning. Clients were sent a seven-page Maliver Financial Services Guide in which Caddick promised to maximise client outcomes while working within the law. Mr Koletti has been a DJ producing a music video in 2015 and a stay-at-home husband for the past year. Wed be at dinner and she would say, Thats a beautiful butter knife, and shed steal it, says one long-term friend. Caddick had ambitions for her husband, whod studied political science in England, and encouraged him to complete a law degree. As the husband of alleged fraudster Melissa Caddick walks police through his wifes Dover Heights mansion, bought with stolen money, he says he is stumped by her sudden disappearance. She ripped off friends shed had from childhood, along with their families, her personal trainer, her two employees and a group of Perth surgeons, one of whom was a university friend of her brother. 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. Her parents, Barb and Ted Grimley, are claiming they are entitled to a share of an Edgecliff apartment as their daughter assured them they would have a life tenancy and more than one-third equity in the $2.5 million apartment she bought in 2016. How did one woman come to rip off her family and friends to the tune of $30million? Is there anything else I need to know? the investment chief asked with cold fury. It was her Sydney hairdresser, Anthony Koletti. After graduating from high school, Caddick enrolled in a secretarial and business administration course at Patrick's College Australia in Sydney. Their son, born in 2006, was aged 14 at the time of Caddick's disappearance in 2020. One thing that stunned Caddicks circle was her petty larceny. Luxury designer wear-addicted Melissa Caddick (above with husband Anthony Koletti) came from a humble family in Sydney's southern suburbs. She fell for him while he was doing her hair close to a decade ago. Once accepted, investors deposited money into Malivers Commonwealth Bank account. The shoe matched her size and fit the description of the footwear she was seen wearing during the raid of her home on 11 November 2020. That's when Australian Securities and Investments Commission raided her $6.1 million pad looking for key evidence. Were working to restore it. 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. ASIC was immediately notified. When pushed as to the exact date this occurred, she replies: This is a question for ASIC. Its a question the corporate regulator also declines to answer, leaving open the issue of just who tipped them off in November 2019. Before him stood his well-groomed office administrator, Melissa Caddick (then known by her maiden name of Grimley), who had just been confronted with the evidence of her crimes: four cheques on which shed forged his signature. Caddick wanted to be able to recommend property and shares in which her clients could invest. That's even as the angry investors acknowledge her family, too, 'are also victims' of her alleged scamming. Melissa Caddicks husband, Anthony Koletti, in bodycam footage taken by NSW police at the couples Dover Heights home. Along with the five bedrooms and a home office, there was a no-expense-spared kitchen and a fabulous roof terrace. 'If Anthony is guilty of anything, it is for being in love with his wife, wanting her safely back at home, and being delusional about the truth of what she may have done,' tax agent dad Rodo Koletti said. Melissa Caddick's husband has hit out, making extraordinary claims about his wife's disappearance and denying he murdered her. On April 20, 2000, they married at the Garrison Church in Millers Point, Sydney. 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. I dont believe he has the capacity to know what a financial scheme is. Tony, who had studied political science in England . Caddick initially knocked her back, telling her the books were full. Tony later showed another friend dozens of WhatsApp messages between Koletti and his wife. But while shed learnt a valuable lesson, it wasnt the one her friends and family imagined. Back at Wise Financial, it was Caddicks failure to grasp the importance of compliance and ethics that would prove to be her undoing. Caddick vanished on 12 November 2020, the morning after ASIC agents and the Australian Federal Police raided her home in Dover Heights. That November date is also significant because it was the last time anyone saw Melissa Caddick alive. Their son, born in 2006, was aged 14 at the time of Caddick's disappearance in 2020. Tony Caddick, Caddick's first husband, was a builder's laborer from England. Not long after, Melissa returned home. 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. The next day Caddick, her son and her new husband jetted off to ski in Aspen for the entire month, with the estimated $80,000 cost of the holiday paid for by her victims. Research suggests CBD mainly affects women, with the age of onset in the early 20s, which corresponds with leaving home and gaining financial independence. When the patient told her she was a financial adviser, the investor mentioned her joy at having found Melissa Caddick. Detective Sergeant Michael Kyneur also found some of Kolettis reporting bizarre. Shes resourceful, he tells Kyneur. Melissa Caddick the sole director of wealth management business Maliver has been barred from removing assets held in Australia and from leaving the country as ASIC investigates concerns that she was providing financial services without an AFSL [Australian Financial Services Licence], had used another companys AFSL without authorisation, and had misappropriated investor funds, the magazine wrote in December 2020. A subsequent review of video records would reveal Caddick had not been jogging for weeks before she disappeared, despite Koletti repeating this was her daily routine. 'And I think they're realising that they're as much victims to that trust as well.'. (NSW Police) Kyneur said he was mindful that his wife had recently vanished. The matter will return to court on May 4. Once back in Sydney, however, a spot was found. CBD sufferers report having negative emotions such as depression, anxiety and low self-esteem, with shopping providing feelings of relief or euphoria. The two-week inquest before Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan is now halfway over after five days of evidence. 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. Six days after Sydney businesswoman Melissa Caddick's decaying foot washed up on a New South Wales south coast beach, more human remains have drifted ashore. Most of her victims were her family and friends, many of whom lost their life savings. [7] By 2003 she had become so well-regarded in her field that she was featured on a cover of the trade magazine IFA (Independent Financial Advisor). However, the couple got divorced and parted ways. Ms Caddick was married to her first husband for 12 years until 2012. Everything shes done has always been legit, he tells them. According to the advertising brochure, the Dover Heights property was a breathtaking contemporary residence that enjoyed expansive harbour views and a heated swimming pool. Speaking to Ben Fordham about 2GB, NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said detectives believed she was alive in the case and examined . She claimed Tony had been domineering and abusive and that hed taken her to England to isolate her from her friends and family. The couple divorced in 2013, and Caddick married Koletti later that year.[2]. The other patient was horrified and confided that Caddick had been fraudulently using her licence and that ASIC had been notified. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Forget turnipsnow eat SQUIRREL! But by mid-December, Mr Grimley had already incurred $55,000 in legal costs dealing with his sister's matter, which receivers may pay for. Concerned that Caddick might get wind that they were on to her, they decided to make a pre-emptive strike. Caddicks vivid outfit at the low-key event was the subject of much discussion. Caddick, he suggests, had a shopping addiction, which is known as compulsive buying disorder (CBD). Counsel for Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), Farid Assaf SC, said that "as befitting a successful businesswoman," Caddick used the proceeds of her crimes to acquire "all the trappings of wealth and that her "success was all a facade and the financial services business was an elaborate front for Ms. Caddicks Ponzi scheme. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Melissa Louise Caddick (ne Grimley; born 21 April 1971[2]disappeared 12 November 2020) was an Australian woman who vanished in November 2020 amid an investigation by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) for carrying on a financial services business without holding an Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence. [12] Caddick's parents made a claim on the basis of handing their daughter $1.03 million on the understanding they would own part of the Edgecliff apartment and have life tenancy. This decision, along with the thoroughness of the police canvassing of CCTV footage, air and water searches, has also been under the spotlight. Suicide is one of the most likely theories. Hers was a comfortable, middle-class family, with her father working in reinsurance and her mother, the driving force in the family, a secretary in a physiotherapy practice. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. 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. 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 There has been some intrigue over why it took 30 hours for Mr Koletti to report his wife's disappearance to police. Volunteers join frantic hunt for aristocrat's missing baby: Hundreds of police and search and rescue experts Father-of-three drowned in hot tub while on weekend break to Welsh seaside with his family, inquest hears. Caddick's disappearance left him broke. Shed be happy to speak to the investors brother or could she refer one or two people to her business now that you know what we do. At his wife's urging, Tony, who had studied political science back in England, completed his law degree and was admitted as a solicitor. 'They had explicit trust in her,' said a source who invested in Caddick's company and was acquainted with her family. Koletti is a hairdresser who she met when she went to do her hair. 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. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. As clients invested money, Caddick created fabricated CommSec portfolio statements and fake account numbers to show her investors what return they had achieved, making them falsely believe they had invested in shares. Leaving Wise in December 2004 amid tears and recriminations, she told friends she was done with the industry. Tony Caddick, Caddick's first husband, was a builder's laborer from England. [19] In December 2022, clothing, art, luxury goods and jewellery belonging to Caddick were sold at auction for $860,000.[20]. 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. Please try again later. Koletti shared the same April birthday as his wife but was 11 years her junior. One of the fake statements provided to Cheryl Kraft-Reid and her partner Faye Reid by Caddick.Credit:Ben Rushton. Perhaps fearing that the surgeons ex-wife might hire a forensic accountant, Caddick abruptly liquidated all his assets without consulting him and returned his funds. On right, Ms Caddick is seen during a helicopter ride, Melissa Caddick's husband of seven years, Anthony Koletti. She made herself appear more exclusive by telling potential investors that her books were full. 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. Saving Private Ryan actor Tom Sizemore's family say the actor, 61, has 'no further hope' after going into a Ed Sheeran reveals wife Cherry was diagnosed with tumour while pregnant which couldn't be treated until Daniel Piotrowski for Daily Mail Australia, Do not sell or share my personal information. I was also aware he attended the coastline at Raleigh Reserve [and] he had taken a photograph of a shoe print, the detective said. Now the retirees' $2million home is at risk of being sold from under them. 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. 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?. Subsequent DNA testing of samples gathered from her toothbrush, as well as from family members, confirmed the foot belonged to Caddick. Caddick's first husband, Tony Caddick, was a builder's labourer originally from England. They married in a ceremony at the Garrison Church in Millers Point, Sydney, on 20 April 2000. After Caddick had been there about six months, someone from the firms interstate head office queried discrepancies showing up between invoices and payments. Caddick was an ordinary girl. 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. Rebecca Franks and Frances Vinall. The cliffs where police believe Caddick took her own life.Credit:Wolter Peeters. [2] Her rsum reportedly included fictitious qualifications including degrees in finance from the University of Technology Sydney, which later said it had no record of completion of a Graduate Diploma in Finance or Masters of Business in Finance or indeed any qualification under the name of Melissa Caddick or Melissa Grimley.[6], After initially working in NRMA's investment division, Caddick joined the Sydney branch of a boutique investment bank as an office administrator. She cheated her doting parents Barb and Ted Grimley, her older brother Adam, her aunts, uncles and cousins. The lavish reception was held at Taronga Zoo, the Grimleys showcasing the glorious Sydney Harbour backdrop to the grooms family, visiting from England. Instead, they showed a dazzling return, sometimes up to 30 per cent a month. Mr Koletti, 38, and Caddick, 49, have been married for seven years. Riley told the NSW coroners court Koletti could not accurately recall the last time he saw his wife and gave conflicting versions of events. Curiously, the woman says she never once talked about her husband. Four police officers working on the case have now testified that no evidence points to Koletti having injured or killed his wife. Melissa Caddick had found her niche. He later told friends that when he returned, not only had Caddick cleaned out their house, shed also cleaned out their joint bank accounts. Over the next 13 hours, she watched as an endless parade of her precious clothes, handbags, shoes and jewellery was taken away. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a11664eb9b291de We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 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. Caddick would shrug off the gratitude saying, Thats just what I do., But Joanna and her family are determined that Caddicks monstrous deception will not tear them apart. Anthony Koletti, the husband of missing Dover Heights woman Melissa Caddick, has told a court he has only $1.95 in his bank account. Super car enthusiast, DJ, Joh Bailey hairdresser, 'prawn farmer', step-dad, dog lover and deserted spouse. On one occasion when the snow was poor at Aspen, the avid skier spent $34,000 decamping the family to Whistler in Canada. 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. Recently tendered Federal Court documents show Anthony Koletti, 39, Melissa Caddicks second husband, is claiming he is the guardian of Ms Caddicks teenage son. [7], In later years, Caddick's extravagant spending drew suspicion among her acquaintances. Although there was an extensive review of CCTV footage, her exact whereabouts after leaving her house were unknown as the footage did not cover the entire area from where she disappeared. [27] By December 2022 she was declared dead. Melissa Caddick's husband, Anthony Koletti, has many feathers to his cap. Kyneur was asked why he did not press Koletti on this inconsistency on 16 November when the interview is conducted. I think Melissa deliberately severed our relationship with Tony so nobody would ever find out the truth.. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group, Look what she did to the people she professed to love, An investor in Caddick's company who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Instead, there are more questions than ever before. Using a cut-and-pasted CommSec logo, at the end of each month she emailed her investors a report. It is understood she deposited these funds into 37 bank accounts. By mid-morning, Caddick had changed tack. According to court documents, Mr Caddick said he was making no claim to any funds on his sons behalf. She married Mr Koletti the following year. She not only received her $2.5 million back but also her fake returns of $300,000. One of the mothers from her Paddington baby group recalls Caddick being always immaculately groomed while everyone else was in jeans and leisurewear. 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