So I cancelled my industry super and I gave her everything, Joanna says of her initial investment on October 10, 2012. Cheryl Kraft Reid (at rear) and her partner Faye Reid were both ripped off by Melissa Caddick.Credit:Ben Rushton. That November date is also significant because it was the last time anyone saw Melissa Caddick alive. I was also aware he attended the coastline at Raleigh Reserve [and] he had taken a photograph of a shoe print, the detective said. Super car enthusiast, DJ, Joh Bailey hairdresser, 'prawn farmer', step-dad, dog lover and deserted spouse. 'Where are they going to go? The application was granted, and the following day the Australian Federal Police raided Caddicks home in Wallangra Road, Dover Heights. It was a clean exit, no lawyers, no police, no nothing, her former boss says. Instead, they showed a dazzling return, sometimes up to 30 per cent a month. That same day, the investor rang Caddick wanting her money back, saying it was because shed suddenly found a house to buy. Only four days after her $6.2 million purchase of the Wallangra Road house, the family jetted off to New York for Easter. Breeding prawns in his home aquarium also amounted to naught. Meanwhile, his wife had contacted the Sydney woman whose financial services licence Caddick had been using without permission. She didnt offer to repay it and rather than going to the trouble of calling the police, the firm didnt ask her to. 9:47pm Sep 27, 2022. Were working to restore it. The family went to Aspen, where their three-bedroom apartment at North of Nell rented, not owned as Caddick had told people looked straight onto the mountain. Off to the races: The once happy couple attending an event together. Anthony Koletti, the husband of missing Dover Heights woman Melissa Caddick, has told a court he has only $1.95 in his bank account. Riley told the NSW coroners court Koletti could not accurately recall the last time he saw his wife and gave conflicting versions of events. Two months later, their son was born. It has been alleged that when questioned about how she could financially support her lavish lifestyle, she concocted differing stories about a windfall payment she had received from Wise, either in the form of an $86 million severance package or a similarly large payout from a sexual harassment claim. Melissa Caddick with her second husband Anthony Koletti. Curiously, the woman says she never once talked about her husband. Tony Caddick, Caddick's first husband, was a builder's laborer from England. [23] University of Newcastle Associate Professor of Criminology Dr Xanth Mallett, who spoke to Seven Network's Weekend Sunrise, pointed out that losing a foot should not immediately mean Caddick is deceased, saying, When it was just a foot I would caution against the possibility that somebody is deceased. I dont believe he has the capacity to know what a financial scheme is. Barnacles, police probes and mobile data have headlined new evidence heard at the inquest into Melissa Caddick's disappearance and presumed death. Caddick presented her friend with a bottle of expensive champagne and a Christian Dior scented bathroom deodoriser. Melissa, we had everything taken from us. Those funds should be returned to the defrauded investors.. They're not in good health. Using a cut-and-pasted CommSec logo, at the end of each month she emailed her investors a report. Shown the cheques, a look of Im done crossed the then 27-year-olds face. The other patient was horrified and confided that Caddick had been fraudulently using her licence and that ASIC had been notified. 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. The investor noted Mr and Mrs Grimley faced possible eviction from their home to pay down Melissa's debts. 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. I dont think he could have been in it at all or known what was going on.. To read more from Good Weekend magazine, visit our page at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times. At his wife's urging, Tony, who had studied political science back in England, completed his law degree and was admitted as a solicitor. [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). Is there anything else I need to know? the investment chief asked with cold fury. Caddick explained that her brother Adam was helping them out financially. ASIC recorded this single, unsourced complaint about Caddick operating without her own licence, but took no action. The investor, who ignored her entreaties, was one of the lucky ones. Melissa Caddick was initially married to her former husband Tony Caddick, but later got divorced in 2013. The year 2014 was a good one for Melissa Caddick. 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. Shed left in her running gear, her husband told the police, but taken nothing with her. The husband of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick has officially vacated the couple's luxury mansion in eastern Sydney. In the wake of Caddick's disappearance, Mr Koletti has somewhat cruelly been described as her 'toy boy'. So who's who in Caddick's family? They werent real tears, in my opinion Im very confident they werent real tears, he said in evidence. Look what she did to the people she professed to love.'. Tony Caddick was Melissa Caddick's first husband, and he was an unlicensed financial advisor from Australia. That's when Australian Securities and Investments Commission raided her $6.1 million pad looking for key evidence. Anthony Koletti and Melissa Caddick and her son on the ski slopes.Credit:Facebook. After the raid, she vanished, seemingly into thin air. 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. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. I remember being really happy that night, thinking how lucky I was to have a friend that I have known forever, Joanna says. If Im going to end it, its going to be here, her friend recalled Caddick telling her. The cliffs where police believe Caddick took her own life.Credit:Wolter Peeters. One of the mothers from her Paddington baby group recalls Caddick being always immaculately groomed while everyone else was in jeans and leisurewear. Instead, there are more questions than ever before. It was slow and constant. [7], In later years, Caddick's extravagant spending drew suspicion among her acquaintances. His father Rodo would later tell 60 Minutes, Anthony is a hairdresser. Melissa Caddick's husband, Anthony Koletti, has many feathers to his cap. On their wedding night, the guests werent to know the proceeds of her crimes were paying for the Mot to flow all night, and for the brides three outfit changes, including her white Gucci wedding dress, and for the $2900 weekly rental on the Rose Bay house which had panoramic views across the harbour. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Caddick vanished on 12 November 2020, the morning after ASIC agents and the Australian Federal Police raided her home in Dover Heights. In her early 20s, Caddick was left emotionally and financially devastated after a romance scam. Now that she was independently wealthy, she was offering her investment services to help people, she told Kraft Reid. Using the initial proceeds of her crimes, she bought designer clothes, expensive jewellery, European cars and a fancy house, and took her family on luxury holidays several times a year. 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. On a skiing trip with her son and her second husband, Anthony Koletti. She subsequently ensnared the rest of Joannas family. [9] In November 2021, the court found that Caddick, through her company Maliver, fraudulently appropriated tens of millions of investor's money, and operated without the required financial services licence between October 2012 and November 2020. Caddick replied that shed stolen them from a Paddington restaurant. She always aspired to be in the coolest group.. Mr Koletti, who is claiming entitlement to the family home, has been asked to provide any documentation proving that he contributed financially to the purchase of the Wallangra Road home which his wife purchased for $6.2 million in 2014. Melissa Caddick's husband has denied playing any role in his wife's November 2020 disappearance, telling an inquest he did not deliberately delay reporting her missing to buy time or avoid. Melissa Caddick is still officially being treated as a 'missing person': court However police have filed a 'suspected death' form for the NSW Coroner Court documents detail what pathologists. 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. They married in a ceremony at the Garrison Church in Millers Point, Sydney, on 20 April 2000. 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. Joanna and her daughter were shocked when they later discovered the Dolce & Gabbana dress shed worn had cost $2500. According to the advertising brochure, the Dover Heights property was a breathtaking contemporary residence that enjoyed expansive harbour views and a heated swimming pool. 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. I found out when a potential client of Melissa did some due diligence on the documents they were provided, the friend says of her discovery that Caddick was using her licence. Claiming she needed to brush up on her financial skills, she persuaded her husband to agree to letting her travel to Switzerland for a conference. She then got married to her partner Anthony Koletti in 2013 and was married for seven years. At this point Caddick turned her attention to losing weight and getting fit. 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 . They married in a ceremony at the Garrison Church in Millers Point, Sydney, on 20 April 2000. In April 2006, Tony was admitted as a solicitor. According to court documents, her friend Joanna, a disability support worker and single mother, was the first to be targeted by Caddick. At some point he texted the cleaner, pretending to be Caddick, to cancel an appointment, he told police. [26] Alternatively, it has been theorized that Koletti was assisting her in hiding. It was just happy to see the back of Melissa Caddick. She always had that desire to be better than she was even from primary school. Blood was always thicker than water for the missing Dover Heights woman, who counted her husband, brother and parents as her closest confidants. 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. After months of speculation as to her whereabouts, partial human remains discovered on a beach on the South Coast of New South Wales in February 2021 were confirmed to be Caddick's through DNA testing. Riley repeatedly asks Koletti to tell him the whole story, believing he is withholding vital information, and later disputes an on-camera breakdown. Melissa Caddick's deceit began long ago 60 Minutes Australia/YouTube It was five stars all the way and a pattern that was to be repeated year in, year out. Once accepted, investors deposited money into Malivers Commonwealth Bank account. So he did nothing. It was not long after this that ASIC received the anonymous complaint. [2], It has been reported that Caddick did not work when she lived in England and quickly found herself bored with her surroundings. 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. 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. In April, despite her actual net worth being only $600,000, she passed off her investors money as her own and was able to obtain a $4 million loan from the National Australia Bank to help purchase the house of her dreams. He then phoned her best friend and brother Adam Grimley but did not tell them she was missing, to elicit an honest answer. She was conscious of fashion labels even back then, according to Joanna. 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. He told the Federal Court that hed been employed part-time as a hairdresser until the COVID lockdown in late March, 2020. This decision, along with the thoroughness of the police canvassing of CCTV footage, air and water searches, has also been under the spotlight. Reputation management expert reveals why it doesn't just happen to How did Russia lose HALF of its 45,000 elite paratroopers in just seven months? January 2020 was much like any other for Caddick. Her partial remains washed up in a running shoe in February 2021. I thought that was extraordinary. It really does hurt, says Joanna. When do the clocks change in 2023? 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. Alex Chapman / Spotlight Exclusives / Updated 16.10.2021 Up Next 4:14 She fell for him while he was doing her hair close to a decade ago. Police were called to Mollymook at. Anthony Koletti and Melissa Caddick and her son on the ski slopes. 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. Melissa vanished on November 12, 2020, while she was being investigated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme. The lavish reception was held at Taronga Zoo, the Grimleys showcasing the glorious Sydney Harbour backdrop to the grooms family, visiting from England. 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. Her partial remains washed up in a running shoe in February 2021. The $390,000 Audi Caddick bought Koletti.Credit:@supacarxposed/Instagram, After his wife vanished, Koletti revealed that he had only $1.95 in his bank account. 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. He succeeded - with the family granted $1700 a week in payments, rather than a previous $800. As soon as his wife is officially declared dead he would become the guardian as per Melissas request in her last will, Mr Koletti wrote in an email dated February 3, 2022, which he sent to Michael Hayter, the solicitor representing the court-appointed receivers of his wifes assets. She didnt believe them and ran away with him. Her brother Adam rang Joanna begging her to try to talk some sense into Melissa. Sign up to Guardian Australia's Morning Mail, Our Australian morning briefing email breaks down the key national and international stories of the day and why they matter. 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. Thus on November 10, 2020, they made an urgent application to the Federal Court to freeze her assets and seize her passport. But Detective Inspector Gretchen Atkins told 60 Minutes that Mr Koletti was 'doing what he can to assist us when we ask for help. Because her company hadnt been established for long, her brother had to help her get finance and was listed as owning 1 per cent of the house. There has been some intrigue over why it took 30 hours for Mr Koletti to report his wife's disappearance to police. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Melissa Caddick's husband evicted from his mansion Caddick at the low-key 50th party of an old friend in a Dolce & Gabbana dress.Credit: Only a month prior, Caddick had invited herself to the 50th birthday party of one of her oldest friends, Joanna (not her real name). On this same trip, Caddick met a woman from Woollahra in Sydney who expressed interest in investing. 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. While it has also been confirmed the 49-year-old could freely roam her home, eat and leave at any stage, Caddicks mother says her daughter wasnt allowed to eat and was seriously distressed throughout. Anthony v Anthony: husbands at odds as frustration grows in Caddick case. And how are they dealing with a situation that none of them asked for? Since then, he has been lugged with a series of even bigger problems. 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. 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. She cheated her doting parents Barb and Ted Grimley, her older brother Adam, her aunts, uncles and cousins. 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. One friend recalls going to dinner later at the newlyweds beautifully renovated Paddington terrace, which had luxury cars in the garage. I cancelled my industry super and I gave her everything.. Please try again later. He has done since 2102(sic), I am his Gardian (sic), he said in an email. How did one woman come to rip off her family and friends to the tune of $30million? 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. [27] By December 2022 she was declared dead. In 2010, the family moved abroad to Essex to live closer to Tony's family while he commuted daily to his job in London. She had chosen a different lifestyle and it was either that or nothing.. The shares in which she invested her clients funds never made a loss. Concerned that Caddick might get wind that they were on to her, they decided to make a pre-emptive strike. But a source familiar with the family said Adam was unable to return to the south east Asian metropolis due to Covid. In late 2019, her brother Adam travelled to Australia from Singapore for a hip replacement. Anthony Koletti phoned in his wife missing about 30 hours after he says she walked out of their home for the last time on 12 November about 5.30am without her keys, wallet or phone. Subsequent DNA testing of samples gathered from her toothbrush, as well as from family members, confirmed the foot belonged to Caddick. Melissa Caddick's husband, Anthony Koletti, has many feathers to his cap. The messages revealed shed been paying for her hairdresser to fly around the world for their assignations. Suicide is one of the most likely theories. 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. I am his biological father and court endorsed guardian for health, schooling and anything else, wrote Mr Caddick in his email. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. One of Caddicks feet was found inside a shoe on Bournda Beach on the NSW South Coast in February. While it is not yet clear exactly where all those millions ended up, the old adage, You have to act rich to be rich, was one Caddick took to heart. 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. The seeds of her undoing were planted long before the fraudulent financial scheme that brought her unstuck. Their son, born in 2006, was aged 14 at the time of Caddick's disappearance in 2020. At 5.30 the next morning, Caddicks son heard the front door close. 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. Caddick shook her head. [2], Caddick's first husband, Tony Caddick, was a builder's labourer originally from England. Mr. If you or anyone you know needs support call Lifeline 131 114. We can escalate it or you can leave immediately, he offered. Koletti shared the same April birthday as his wife but was 11 years her junior. 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. It was a complete disaster. 85.214.140.250 '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. [21], According to Willing, Caddick's disappearance was distressing for many people, including her clients, family and friends. [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. They spent the July school holidays in Fiji, then it was back to Aspen for a month over Christmas. He has done since 2102 (sic), I am his Gardian (sic)," he said in an email. The inconsistencies in Kolettis stories include who found his wifes phone and where it was located. However, Caddick fell out with Wise when the company refused to allow her to recommend property and shares to her clients due to compliance rules. 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. Telling her husband she needed to brush up on her financial skills, Caddick insisted on attending a conference in Switzerland. The couple divorced in 2013, and Caddick married Koletti later that year.[2]. A detective has told an inquest Melissa Caddick's husband Anthony Koletti gave conflicting accounts of her disappearance. 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. 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. Melissa Caddicks husband, Anthony Koletti, in bodycam footage taken by NSW police at the couples Dover Heights home. Melissa Caddick's husband says he had no inkling his wife was defrauding family and friends of millions of dollars, nor did he ask her why federal police or the corporate . Girl, 2, looks star-struck as she presents Kate with a gift of Daffodils for St David's Mike Tindall's latest money-making scheme! The womans first investment of $1 million had made such a handsome return that by April shed invested a total of $2.5 million. Nothing matters more than family. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a11664eb9b291de Koletti offered up an early theory that Caddick was camping out at the Meriton in Bondi Junction, a big spot for us in our early years. The ostentatious trappings of wealth cloaked her in a chic veneer of success. That's even as the angry investors acknowledge her family, too, 'are also victims' of her alleged scamming. Your IP: Tony studied political science in England, finished his law degree, and was admitted as a solicitor at the persuasion of his wife. 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. A couple of years later, in 1998, she left the boutique investment house mentioned earlier after being caught forging her bosss signature on cheques. Court documents tendered since then indicate Mr Caddick is paying his sons private school fees. He was photographed meeting Caddick's parents for an 'animated' two hour discussion on Sunday. Her husband, Anthony Koletti, has told the inquest he did not help her disappear and has denied he had any knowledge of her financial dealings. 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. She married Mr Koletti the following year. 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 cars number plates, 2 PAWS, was a riff on his company, Paws Off Productions. Along with the five bedrooms and a home office, there was a no-expense-spared kitchen and a fabulous roof terrace. 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. About this time she reportedly told her brother Adam: If it all gets too much for me youll find me at The Gap.. Kolettis family must have the money, Tony would suggest. Shed call later to say they were in luck a place had become available. her childhood friend and one of her first victims Kate Horn said that it was in 2015 Ms Caddick told her that she had had to let some . He said he found his behaviour extremely strange and unusual. Melissa Louise Grimley was born on April 21, 1971. She could have a fat wad of cash stashed under the bed for all I know. But as the days stretched on and the pilfered amounts continued to rise, Adam struggled to deal with not just the public scandal but also the devastating private betrayal. On right, Ms Caddick is seen during a helicopter ride, Melissa Caddick's husband of seven years, Anthony Koletti. Although their sons had been born only a couple of days apart, Caddicks son was now a year ahead. 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. 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. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. Tony, who had studied political science in England, completed his law degree and was admitted as a solicitor at his wife's insistence. 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