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Detectives are still treating the Melissa Caddick investigation as if ‘she’s still alive’ and are forensically examining her high-end cars and computers for clues.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said the wealthy businesswoman and accused fraudster’s disappearance remains a missing persons’ investigation.
‘We are treating the case as she is still alive,’ the commissioner told Radio 2GB’s Ben Fordham show on Tuesday morning.
Police are still actively searching for CCTV footage, doorknocking Dover Heights residents and ‘downloading information from her cars (and) computers’, Mr Fuller said.
Ms Caddick’s disappearance is just weeks away from crossing a critical threshold in a police missing person’s investigation.
Melissa Caddick vanished from her Dover Heights home on or about November 12 last year and hasn’t been seen since. The timing was conspicuous, coming two days after she was raided
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said detectives are examining her cars (such as this $300,000 Audi R8) for clues
Ms Caddick vanished from her home on November 12, two days she was raided over an investigation by the corporate regulator ASIC over allegedly misappropriating her clients’ funds.
As of Tuesday, she has been missing for some 68 days.
Should she not be found in 90 days – in three weeks’ time – she will be designated a ‘long term missing person’.
That means she would likely appear on the Federal Police’s nation-wide missing persons’ registry. She’s already listed on a NSW equivalent.
Mr Fuller, above, noted it is quite difficult to disappear completely in 2021 given peoples’ electronic footprints
Last year, police said some 99 per cent of cases were solved prior to the 90 day mark, with only 18 disappearances surpassing the threshold.
Meanwhile, Ms Caddick’s husband, Anthony Koletti, is believed to have ditched the family $6.1million Dover Heights mansion and to have shacked up with his in-laws.
He has been driving a Mercedes rather than his $300,000 Audi R8 recently and has been spotted driving about the eastern suburbs, ‘music blaring’, an observer said.
However, a police source told Daily Mail Australia the agency doesn’t currently have any of Ms Caddick’s vehicles in its custody.
It comes as his tax agent father, Rodo, lashed out at ‘innuendo’ spread online about his family by wannabe cyber sleuths.
Rodo has threatened to call in the lawyers over posts on a Facebook discussion group, wrongly linking Koletti family members.
Ms Caddick’s hairdresser and DJ husband, Anthony Koletti, is believed to have ditched their $6.1 million Dover Heights home to shack up with his in-laws
Ms Caddick, 49, used to live an extravagant lifestyle with her husband (on right, she is wearing a Stefano Canturi necklace she claims was valued at $250,000)
‘I feel sorry that Melissa is missing, but also feel very sorry for the innocent people who may have been “defrauded” of their hard earned life savings,’ he said.
It is not suggested Anthony Koletti – or any of his relatives for that matter – played any role in the disappearance of Ms Caddick, who posed as a financial adviser.
The separate ASIC investigation into claims Ms Caddick misappropriated tens of millions of investors’ money in her ‘financial advisory’ firm, Maliver Pty Ltd, remains on foot.
Ms Caddick is accused of doctoring fake CommSec documents showing her clients were making extraordinary returns.
One example, revealed by Daily Mail Australia, showed a client reaping a 257 per cent profit.
The CommSec document was not genuine, banking industry sources confirmed.
