“Please confirm that $65,000 will be reimbursed within 14 business days,” said the email.
However, the two rental agreements she attached as proof of her loss were forgeries.
One of the fraudulent rental tax invoices Melissa Caddick prepared to claim lost income.
Caddick did receive the equivalent sums in her bank accounts, but they were not for the rental of her Dover Heights home. The deposits were from two of her victims who thought they were investing in shares.
Caddick, 49, vanished in November 2020 within hours of the Federal Police and investigators from the corporate regulator ASIC raiding her house in connection with her theft of $23 million from family and friends.
Her partial remains were found in a running shoe at a remote beach three months later.
One of Caddick’s employees was adamant that her boss did not like strangers coming into her house.
A bank statement from Caddick’s company Maliver showing money transferred out in the names of two investors purporting to be as payment for renting out her house.
Having received this letter of demand, Wallis had to hire lawyers and an insurance investigator to dispute Caddick’s claims.
Caddick’s claim was denied after the investigator concluded that “it was unfortunately Anthony Koletti’s direct actions in intervening with the equipment that caused the system to fail in its entirety on 24 December 2015.”
Melissa Caddick with Anthony Koletti. She is wearing the $2500 Dolce & Gabbana dress she wore to friend…
