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A SYDNEY private school teacher was bound, gagged and left to die by a young male prostitute who claims the older man was blackmailing him into having sex, a Sydney court has heard.
Ian Craigie, 63, a retired barrister who taught Classical Greek at St Ignatius’ College, Riverview, was reported missing in September 2009. He was found dead in his Glebe flat three days later with his hands and feet bound and tape around his mouth.
Earlier this year, 24-year-old Yutian Li pleaded guilty to manslaughter, as well as armed robbery and obtaining money by deception for using Mr Craigie’s ATM card to withdraw $7000 after his death.
During Li’s sentencing hearing in the NSW Supreme Court yesterday, the court heard Mr Craigie had picked Li up at a brothel.

See the full article from “Sydney Morning Herald”

In Sydney, Gavin Bennett lived in a world replete with million-dollar views, beautiful women, champagne and international travel.
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In Sydney, he led a lifestyle of wine, women, fancy cars and accommodation, and made the city’s social pages attending exclusive parties.
Bennett used A$464,000 of fraudulently obtained funds to rent two apartments in a high-rise with views of the Sydney Opera House.
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These accommodation bills paled next to other living expenses – A$429,000 (NZ$550,000) for food and drinks at expensive Sydney nightspots, A$163,000 on designer clothing, and A$161,000 in international travel – plus generous payments to what were described as “female escorts“.
BusinessDay investigations found two of the “female escorts” listed as co-directors of businesses Bennett registered in Australia.
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These developments seemed to spook Bennett, who flew out of Christchurch to Sydney just before a High Court order froze his accounts and the Serious Fraud Office began investigating.

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Health Services Union head Michael Williamson was stopped allegedly trying to remove documents as police raided his Sydney offices this morning.
Mr Williamson was stopped in the car park of the union’s East branch building in Pitt Street, Sydney.
Detective Superintendent Col Dyson, Commander of the NSW Fraud and Cybercrime Squad, said that any interference may result in criminal charges.
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Raid … police outside the HSU offices in Sydney this morning. Photo: Peter Rae
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Two months ago, officers from the same strike force searched a house in Sydney’s northern beaches. It is believed to be the home of graphic designer John Gilleland, who runs a printing business and allegedly provided credit cards to Mr Thomson and Mr Williamson.
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It has separately been alleged Mr Thomson misused a union credit card for prostitutes, lavish meals and cash withdrawals when he was the HSU’s national secretary between 2002 and 2007.

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Union boss Michael Williamson has allegedly been stopped in a car park with a bag of documents during a police raid on the Sydney offices of the Health Services Union (HSU).
About 10 officers from the NSW Fraud and Cybercrime Squad stormed the second level of an office block in Pitt Street, in Sydney’s CBD, about 9am (AEST) on Wednesday and seized documents and accessed computers.
The raid was carried by Strike Force Carnarvon, which was set up in September to investigate allegations of systemic corruption in the HSU, including alleged misuse of credit cards by Mr Williamson and former HSU official and now federal MP Craig Thomson.
During the operation, they intercepted Mr Williamson, the general secretary of HSU East Branch, in a car park in an adjacent building.
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“It is something that the Australian public understand is rank,” Mr Abbott told reporters in Sydney on Wednesday.

See the full article from “WA today”

In Sydney, Gavin Bennett lived in a world replete with million-dollar views, beautiful women, champagne and international travel.
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In Sydney, he led a lifestyle of wine, women, fancy cars and accommodation, and made the city’s social pages attending exclusive parties.
Bennett used A$464,000 of fraudulently obtained funds to rent two apartments in a high-rise with views of the Sydney Opera House.
…
These accommodation bills paled next to other living expenses – A$429,000 (NZ$550,000) for food and drinks at expensive Sydney nightspots, A$163,000 on designer clothing, and A$161,000 in international travel – plus generous payments to what were described as “female escorts“.
BusinessDay investigations found two of the “female escorts” listed as co-directors of businesses Bennett registered in Australia.
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These developments seemed to spook Bennett, who flew out of Christchurch to Sydney just before a High Court order froze his accounts and the Serious Fraud Office began investigating.

See the full article from “The Southland Times”

A SYDNEY private school teacher was bound, gagged and left to die by a young male prostitute who claims the older man was blackmailing him into having sex, a Sydney court has heard.
Ian Craigie, 63, a retired barrister who taught Classical Greek at St Ignatius’ College, Riverview, was reported missing in September 2009. He was found dead in his Glebe flat three days later with his hands and feet bound and tape around his mouth.
Earlier this year, 24-year-old Yutian Li pleaded guilty to manslaughter, as well as armed robbery and obtaining money by deception for using Mr Craigie’s ATM card to withdraw $7000 after his death.
During Li’s sentencing hearing in the NSW Supreme Court yesterday, the court heard Mr Craigie had picked Li up at a brothel.

See the full article from “Sydney Morning Herald”

HSU Health Services Union is raided by the police. Picture shows Detectives removing boxes from the office in Pitt Street, Sydney. Picture: Renee Nowytarger Source: The Australian
FORMER ALP national president Michael Williamson allegedly tried to spirit away “relevant” documents during a police raid at the Sydney offices of the Health Services Union yesterday, prompting authorities to warn that anyone found to be interfering in the investigation could face criminal charges.
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It is understood that soon after the raid began, Mr Williamson and another man – thought to be his son – were found at a nearby underground car park in possession of documents that had earlier been removed from the HSU office in Sydney’s CBD.
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Mr Thomson faces separate allegations, which are being investigated by Victorian police, claiming he used his union credit card as national secretary for a $100,000-plus extravaganza of private spending on prostitutes, fine dining and overseas travel, claims he denies.

See the full article from “The Australian”

HEALTH Services Union boss Michael Williamson was allegedly caught attempting to take a bag of documents out of the union’s Sydney office to his car during a police raid yesterday morning.
Mr Williamson – the ALP’s national and NSW vice-president until forced out last September – faces the possibility of charges of hindering a criminal investigation.
Fraud squad head Detective Superintendent Colin Dyson said: “One has major concerns that efforts have been made to interfere with information relevant to our investigation.
“I don’t dismiss the possibility of criminal charges arising from those efforts.”
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Mr Thomson is also facing a Victorian police investigation into allegations that, as national secretary of the union, he used a union credit card to pay for prostitutes. Both Mr Williamson and Mr Thomson have denied the allegations.

See the full article from “The Daily Telegraph”

SYDNEY, May 2, 2012 (AFP) – Police Wednesday said they were probing fraud allegations against Australian parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper who is at the centre of a scandal about travel vouchers and sexual harassment.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) said they had been investigating the fraud claims since last month, speaking to potential witnesses and gathering evidence about Slipper’s alleged misuse of taxi entitlements.
“The AFP has now assessed that the matter requires further investigation,” it said in a statement, adding that it would not comment further.
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Thomson has been under a cloud for several years over allegations he misused the credit card of a former employer, the Health Services Union (HSU), to pay for lavish meals, prostitutes and to get cash advances.
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Police on Wednesday raided the Sydney headquarters of a branch of the HSU, a trade union representing health workers, seizing documents and computers.

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SYDNEY (AFP) – Police on Wednesday said they were probing fraud allegations against Australian parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper who is at the centre of a scandal about travel vouchers and sexual harassment.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) said they had been investigating the fraud claims since last month, speaking to potential witnesses and gathering evidence about Slipper’s alleged misuse of taxi entitlements.
“The AFP has now assessed that the matter requires further investigation,” it said in a statement, adding that it would not comment further.
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Thomson has been under a cloud for several years over allegations he misused the credit card of a former employer, the Health Services Union (HSU), to pay for lavish meals, prostitutes and to get cash advances.
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Police on Wednesday raided the Sydney headquarters of a branch of the HSU, a trade union representing health workers, seizing documents and computers.

See the full article from “The West Australian”