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Missing millionaire Melissa Caddick had just $7,000 in her personal bank accounts before she mysteriously disappeared from her clifftop mansion.
The businesswoman was believed to have left her $6.2 million Dover Heights home about 5.30am on November 12, dressed in her activewear and Nike sneakers for her usual morning run.
Two days before she went missing, Ms Caddick was raided by the Australian Federal Police as part of an investigation by the corporate regulator ASIC.
ASIC is probing claims that the wealthy businesswoman had swindled investors in her company Maliver Pty Ltd by as much as $25million to $40million.
That has fuelled speculation that Ms Caddick may have been under such pressure from the investigation that she took off.
Missing millionaire Melissa Caddick had just $7,000 in her personal bank accounts before she mysteriously disappeared from her clifftop mansion
Ms Caddick’s family has sought access to other frozen accounts to pay for mortgages and mobile phones. Above, she poses for a happy snap with her husband, DJ Anthony Koletti
Melissa Caddick went missing two days following a raid on her home as part of an Australian Securities and Investment Commission investigation. Above, she is seen at a black tie event with husband Anthony Koletti and her necklace which is purportedly valued at $250,000
An affidavit filed by the 49-year-old’s lawyer in response to the AFP action has now revealed she had just $7,000 in her accounts.
Ms Caddick’s family has sought access to other frozen accounts to pay for mortgages and mobile phones.
Three days before her disappearance, ASIC gained a court order to obtain the name, physical address, email address and phone number of each person who has funds deposited’ with her.
Her wealth management company Maliver Pty Ltd was ordered to provide ASIC with its latest annual financial statement.
Ten days before the information was due to be provided to the court, Ms Caddick’s lawyer Jennifer Williamson filed an affidavit saying her client was ‘missing’.
Ms Williamson also said ‘the homicide arm of the NSW Police has been investigating the possibility that her disappearance is due to her homicide’.
Two months before she went missing, Ms Caddick granted a power of attorney to her brother Adam Grimley.
‘I am informed by Mr Grimley and believe that Ms Caddick’s personal accounts contain limited funds [of] $7,202.13 with a debit in one account $1,225.42,’ the affidavit read.
Ms Caddick also had bogus CommSec documents allegedly showing the businesswoman swindling investors by claiming they were making remarkable returns.
Daily Mail Australia obtained a share portfolio statement that the financial adviser allegedly sent to a client to mark the end of the 2014-15 financial year.
The statement purported to show the extraordinary profit that Ms Caddick’s wealth management company, Maliver Pty Ltd, had earned for the client.
Ms Caddick owned 99 per cent of her $6.2 million Dover Heights mansion – the other one per cent held by her brother
Missing woman Melissa Caddick, wearing an 83 carat black sapphire necklace, is pictured with her husband Anthony Koletti during her 49th birthday in April this year. It’s not suggested her husband was involved with the matters under investigation by ASIC
The apparent forgery claimed an investor had made a stunning 257 per cent return – or $84,961 – on an original $33,000 investment in Macquarie Bank stocks.
But it also allegedly contained the seeds of Ms Caddick’s business unraveling when CommSec delivered the stunning news to the investor that it was all a fake.
‘We called CommSec and they confirmed it was not a real account number … they said the documents are fake,’ the investor told Daily Mail Australia.
‘I said, “they can’t be, as it has your logo on top” … She had (allegedly) copied and pasted the lot.’
Daily Mail Australia has independently established the document is not genuine. CommSec doesn’t even produce a document called a ‘portfolio statement’.
Ms Caddick also had bogus CommSec documents allegedly showing the businesswoman swindling investors by claiming they were making remarkable returns
Missing: Melissa Caddick disappeared from her Dover Heights home on Thursday, November 12. She’s pictured above with her husband
This is the forged CommSec share trading document an investor claims Melissa Caddick sent to them, showing that they had made a 257 per cent return on Macquarie Bank holdings
The words ‘FY2014-2015’ aren’t written to the bank’s typical style and the disclaimer down the bottom is wrong. (However, Macquarie stocks have enjoyed a meteoric rise, the price almost tripling since 2013.)
The investor said Ms Caddick failed to give them satisfactory answers when they confronted her about the alleged CommSec account. ‘This is how the whole thing started with ASIC.’
It’s understood ‘the sh**t hit the fan’ for Ms Caddick several months ago – when other parties came forward with concerns about their investments and her company.
It was previously revealed that Ms Caddick had resided at a $6.2 million cliffside property, hired a private chef, holidayed in Aspen and drove a $300,000 Audi R8.
The businesswoman had also gone around flaunting a designer sapphire necklace, featuring an enormous, 83 carat centrepiece stone.
‘She said many a time it was (worth) $250,000,’ a former friend told Daily Mail Australia of the jewellery, which she kept in a safe.
