Melissa Caddick and her dogs, and (inset) Melissa Caddick’s dog Peter Pan seated at the fraudster’s desk in front of paperwork saying she was making a $46,000 per day profit.
In February 2021, her partial remains inside her running shoe washed up on a remote South Coast beach. An inquest into her presumed death will be held in September.
In late 2012, Caddick’s oldest friend, Kate Horn, became her first victim. Her extended family later lost almost $10 million.
In 2013, Caddick ratcheted up her criminal endeavours by setting up a fake financial services company Maliver.
She simply cut and pasted a friend’s financial services guide and inserted her own name. She also passed off her friend’s financial services licence as her own.
Caddick knew she would never get the licence, which is regulated by ASIC, as extensive documentation is required to prove that the person has the requisite training and qualifications.
Anthony Koletti and Melissa Caddick chatting with guests on their wedding day on New Year’s Eve, 2013.
She had previously falsified her qualifications claiming she had undergraduate and post-graduate degrees from the University of Technology, Sydney. The university confirmed she had no such degrees.
Within two months of establishing Maliver, she issued a fictitious client with a $1.4 million tax invoice for providing “business consulting services”.
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Because her tax returns on the $23 million she stole were works of fiction, Bruce Gleeson, the liquidator…
