Melissa Caddick, 49, was last seen at her Dover Heights home in Sydney’s east on November 12
Sydney businesswoman Melissa Caddick’s ‘toy boy’ husband handed authorities five passports in her name days after she disappeared, investigators claim.
Ms Caddick, 49, was last seen at her Dover Heights home in Sydney’s east on November 12, days after Australian Federal Police raided the property as part of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation.
She has been missing ever since.
But three days later, Detective Sergeant Michael Kyneur from Bondi police station revealed she had several passports in her possession prior to disappearing.
He told ASIC: ‘I have got five Australian passports handed in by the husband in the name of Melissa Caddick.’
He later clarified that the passports included one current one and four which have expired.
There has been no trace of her since she disappeared, and those closest to her swear they had no idea she was allegedly fudging the numbers in her business.
There is no evidence that she came to any harm, nor that she escaped of her own accord.
According to a luxury Sydney jeweller from Canturi, who had recently designed a piece for the wealthy businesswoman worth $100,000, Ms Caddick said she had recently sold property in New York City.
Ms Caddick is pictured with her husband Anthony Koletti. He handed over five passports in her name after she disappeared
She claimed she’d lost money on the investment due to the economic downturn amid Covid, but investigations conducted by Daily Telegraph suggest she never owned real estate under her own name in the city.
Ms Caddick never returned to the jeweller to pick up the one-of-a-kind piece, the business said.
The revelation comes after her brother, Adam Grimley, revealed her husband, Anthony Koletti, didn’t tell police or family she was missing for more than 30 hours.
‘The f***wit hasn’t told us anything,’ he told one of Ms Caddick’s friends the day after she disappeared.
The family friend of 25 years, who did not want to be named, had called Mr Grimley after she got off the phone with a detective – who rang to ask if she knew where Ms Caddick was, Sydney Morning Herald reported.
She received the call after leaving Ms Caddick a voicemail, where she suggested the pair should catch up that night.
When the woman phoned Mr Grimley, he told her that his parents were only told a few hours earlier that Ms Caddick had been missing for a day.
Ms Caddick’s husband did not tell police or her family that she was missing for more than 30 hours. The couple are pictured together
‘He was upset and angry that Anthony hadn’t reported her missing and that he hadn’t contacted her family,’ the woman said.
At this point, Mr Grimley and the family friend did not know they were victims of Ms Caddick’s alleged financial deception.
She is accused of swindling her investors out of millions.
Mr Koletti, who grew up in Riverwood in the city’s west, met the businesswoman while he was working as a hairdresser in Westfield Bondi Junction.
‘Anthony was her “toy boy”,’ a family friend said. ‘She was the breadwinner and a controlling one at that.’
Ms Caddick had been under investigation by the corporate regulator, ASIC, for at least three months before her sudden disappearance on November 12.
ASIC was probing whether her company Maliver Pty Ltd had misused millions from investors. The victims were largely friends and associates.
Two days before she went missing, ASIC secured a Federal Court order against her and her company.
A family friend said Ms Caddick’s brother Adam Grimley (pictured) ‘was upset and angry’ that Mr Koletti hadn’t reported his wife as missing
She was banned from travelling overseas and her assets were frozen. Ms Caddick’s home was raided by the Australian Federal Police that same day.
She’s also accused of splurging on luxury brands such as Dior and Chanel, overseas holidays, limousines and even protein shakes.
An affidavit seen by Daily Mail Australia states that $20million of investors funds were deposited into her accounts between January 2018 and September 18, 2020.
Ms Caddick’s disappearance is the subject of a NSW Police missing persons’ investigation
The corporate watchdog alleges she would open up fake CommSec accounts for her clients and send them fake monthly reports of how their shares were going.
One investor’s report, provided to Daily Mail Australia, shows him raking in an astronomical 257 per cent return on Macquarie Bank shares.
ASIC’s investigation found Ms Caddick spent an enormous amount of luxury clothes, overseas travel and even protein shakes.
On her American Express card alone, Ms Caddick allegedly spent $229,277 at Dior, $187,000 at Canturi Jewellers, $48,000 at Chanel and $52,548 at Cosmopolitan shoes.
The documents also reveal how Ms Caddick also splurged on holidays to Fiji, New York and Aspen.
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