Alex Chapman / Spotlight Exclusives / Updated 16.10.2021 Up Next 4:14 Instead, she was breaking the law by operating a financial services business without a licence. It wasnt long after Caddick arrived back from England that she set her sights on her first victim. 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. [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. He has done since 2102 (sic), I am his Gardian (sic)," he said in an email. Back at Wise Financial, it was Caddicks failure to grasp the importance of compliance and ethics that would prove to be her undoing. 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. 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 . CBD sufferers report having negative emotions such as depression, anxiety and low self-esteem, with shopping providing feelings of relief or euphoria. 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. Caddick was an ordinary girl. 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. On April 20, 2000, they married at the Garrison Church in Millers Point, Sydney. Behind his back, her friends referred to Koletti as The Handbag or the Toy Boy. The cars number plates, 2 PAWS, was a riff on his company, Paws Off Productions. It was her Sydney hairdresser, Anthony Koletti. Caddick's brother, Adam Grimley, has been left to clean up the mess, as manager of her estate. However, the couple got divorced and parted ways. Anthony Koletti and Melissa Caddick and her son on the ski slopes.Credit:Facebook. A couple of years later, in 1998, she left the boutique investment house mentioned earlier after being caught forging her bosss signature on cheques. 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. When the patient told her she was a financial adviser, the investor mentioned her joy at having found Melissa Caddick. Shed stolen a petty amount, less than $2000. [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. No date for a coronial inquest has been set. Tony later showed another friend dozens of WhatsApp messages between Koletti and his wife. That's when Australian Securities and Investments Commission raided her $6.1 million pad looking for key evidence. 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. Caddick had ambitions for her husband, whod studied political science in England, and encouraged him to complete a law degree. 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. 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. She would get very, very cranky if you said, Heres Melissa, shes a secretary, Joanna recalls, noting that her friend tended to give herself a superior title. She subsequently ensnared the rest of Joannas family. 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? 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. The matter will return to court on May 4. 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. According to court documents, Mr Caddick said he was making no claim to any funds on his sons behalf. Joanna and her daughter were shocked when they later discovered the Dolce & Gabbana dress shed worn had cost $2500. 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. 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. 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. At some point during the 12-hour raid, AFP constable Amelia Griffen notes that Caddick has taken an afternoon nap. 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. She would later tell friends she had a list of every country in the world that had non-extradition treaties with Australia and that Tony was never allowed to travel to any of them with their son. 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 . Caddick, he suggests, had a shopping addiction, which is known as compulsive buying disorder (CBD). '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. The investigation into the disappearance took a sharp turn when her foot, encased in an Asics shoe, washed up on Bournda beach, about 400km south of Sydney, in February 2021. "I didn't cross-examine what he was saying in fairness to him, I also realised his wife was missing and I took that into consideration," he said. Now that she was independently wealthy, she was offering her investment services to help people, she told Kraft Reid. Melissa Caddick had found her niche. Subsequent DNA testing of samples gathered from her toothbrush, as well as from family members, confirmed the foot belonged to Caddick. EXCLUSIVE: How suspected runaway conwoman Melissa Caddick 'And I think they're realising that they're as much victims to that trust as well. A detective has told an inquest Melissa Caddick's husband Anthony Koletti gave conflicting accounts of her disappearance. That's even as the angry investors acknowledge her family, too, 'are also victims' of her alleged scamming. Meanwhile, his wife had contacted the Sydney woman whose financial services licence Caddick had been using without permission. 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. His father Rodo would later tell 60 Minutes, Anthony is a hairdresser. 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. Ms Caddick was married to her first husband for 12 years until 2012. Once back in Sydney, however, a spot was found. 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. Using a cut-and-pasted CommSec logo, at the end of each month she emailed her investors a report. 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. Mr Koletti, 38, and Caddick, 49, have been married for seven years. In late 2012, Caddicks marriage to Tony Caddick dissolved following her affair with Koletti. 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. 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. [26] Alternatively, it has been theorized that Koletti was assisting her in hiding. Their son, born in 2006, was aged 14 at the time of Caddick's disappearance in 2020. 'You've got Adam who has been left to clean up this mess - emotionally and technically. After confronting his wife with the evidence of her infidelity, there was a row and Tony went to stay with his family for a few days. I am his biological father and court endorsed guardian for health, schooling and anything else, wrote Mr Caddick in his email. To read more from Good Weekend magazine, visit our page at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times. [16][17] In May 2022, the Federal Court ordered Koletti to vacate their house so it could be sold by liquidators. The investor noted Mr and Mrs Grimley faced possible eviction from their home to pay down Melissa's debts. Were working to restore it. 'It was about the way he massaged her head,' a source familiar with the family claimed. 5 min read. 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. Melissa, we had everything taken from us. It was not long after this that ASIC received the anonymous complaint. [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). Caddick had a couple of close calls. Caddick's disappearance left him broke. She fell for him while he was doing her hair close to a decade ago. Melissa Caddick's husband, Anthony Koletti, has many feathers to his cap. Female carer who bit off part of a pub landlady's ear during vicious bar brawl is jailed for 14 months. She always aspired to be in the coolest group.. I dont think he could have been in it at all or known what was going on.. She did brilliant work, the clients loved her, he says. On one occasion when the snow was poor at Aspen, the avid skier spent $34,000 decamping the family to Whistler in Canada. [27] By December 2022 she was declared dead. Instead, they showed a dazzling return, sometimes up to 30 per cent a month. Although their sons had been born only a couple of days apart, Caddicks son was now a year ahead. 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. 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. 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. More than $200,000 was spent on jewellery and in 2016 she used investors funds to buy Koletti a bright blue $390,000 Audi. Now the retirees' $2million home is at risk of being sold from under them. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. After the divorce from Caddick, she tied the knot with her boyfriend, Anthony Koletti. 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. Anthony v Anthony: husbands at odds as frustration grows in Caddick case. 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. The reality was that Caddick wasnt working in England, and was bored and lonely. Her partial remains washed up in a running shoe in February 2021. Harry and Meghan are 'stunned' after being evicted from Frogmore Cottage and 'have until the summer to move Covid families and critics accuse Matt Hancock of 'criminal negligence': Fury as WhatsApps 'show he ignored Meghan Markle was 'hugely disappointed' by life in the royal family and as a 'global superstar' she 'hated Is YOUR lifestyle good for your heart? Receivers will report back to the Federal Court on Caddick's assets on Monday. She was last heard by her son, who detected a door shutting at around 5:30 am and presumed it was Caddick going for her daily exercise. One of her subsequent victims, Cheryl Kraft Reid, recalls asking Caddick how a financial planner could possibly afford the extravagant life she led. But not only has Caddick, 49, been missing for three months, her alleged financial misappropriation could see her inner circle lose their homes. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. 'I kind of just sit there and go, we got done out of money. CBD sufferers often have other obsessive-compulsive disorders such as skin picking or hair pulling. 'We love you,', Barbara and Edward Grimley, Melissa's parents. They married in a ceremony at the Garrison Church in Millers Point, Sydney, on 20 April 2000. That, with hindsight, was a crying shame: a criminal record might have forestalled what was to come. 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