LIQUIDATION – AUSTRALIA

Bonza joins the scrapheap of airline failures

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Original article by Robyn Ironside
The Australian – Page: 15 : 3-Jul-24

Creditors of failed budget airline Bonza have voted 35-6 in favour of liquidating the carrier. Administrator Hall Chadwick has advised that they had received no offers for Bonza or its assets, despite an extensive sales campaign. The formal vote to liquidate the company will allow Bonza’s employees to access the federal government’s fair entitlements guarantee scheme. Unions note that the decision to liquidate will provide Bonza’s employees with much-needed certainty, given that they have not been paid since March.

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BONZA AVIATION PTY LTD, HALL CHADWICK AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

Gupta to fight OneSteel wind-up

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Original article by Nick Evans, Perry Williams
The Australian – Page: 13 & 16 : 7-Apr-21

The future of the Whyalla steelworks in South Australia is in doubt after Citibank filed a ‘winding-up in insolvency’ application for the plant’s operator, OneSteel Manufacturing. The application also includes Tahmoor Coal, which operates an associated coal mine in New South Wales. McGrathNicol will become liquidator of the two companies if the Supreme Court of NSW approves the application. British businessman Sanjeev Gupta is trying to secure $500m in new funding for the Whyalla steelworks following the collapse of Greensill Capital, which is the major creditor of his GFG Alliance.

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ONESTEEL MANUFACTURING, TAHMOOR COAL PTY LTD, CITIBANK (SWITZERLAND) AG, McGRATH NICOL AND PARTNERS SERVICES PTY LTD, SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, GREENSILL CAPITAL (UK) LIMITED, GFG ALLIANCE

$100m lost in Plutus tax scam

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Original article by Geoff Winestock, David Marin-Guzman
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 4 : 15-Jan-18

The liquidators of Plutus Payroll, the company at the centre of a tax fraud case, have released their first report to its creditors. Plutus Payroll and its associated companies have total debts of $A136 million. Based on how much Tim Norman of Deloitte Financial Advisory estimates will be recoverable from Plutus Payroll itself, it appears that the Australian Taxation Office may have to forgo around $A100 million. It is owed all but $A2 million of the debt.

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PLUTUS PAYROLL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN TAXATION OFFICE, DELOITTE FINANCIAL ADVISORY, SYNEP, HARTFORD INVESTMENTS, KISMETS

Van Eyk collapse still leaves retail investors ‘$20m out of pocket’

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Original article by Andrew Main
The Australian – Page: 22 : 2-Feb-15

Macquarie Investment Management in September 2014 closed the 14 Blueprint funds operated by van Eyk Research, due to an unauthorised illiquid asset allocation by UK hedge fund Artefact. The van Eyk firm subsequently collapsed, and buyers were sought from October on by liquidator Moore Stephens. The remaining business is now set to be acquired by Lonsec for some $A1m, while the New Zealand operations are worth $A2m. However sources say that investors in just 10 of the 14 affected Blueprint vehicles have been paid out in full so far, with a further $A20m-plus still outstanding

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VAN EYK RESEARCH LIMITED, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT ABSOLUTE AUSTRALIAN SHARES FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT ABSOLUTE INTERNATIONAL SHARES FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT AUSTRALIAN SHARES FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT BALANCED FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT CAPITAL STABLE FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT DIVERSIFIED INCOME FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT GLOBAL EMERGING MARKETS FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT GOLD BULLION FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT HIGH GROWTH FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT INTERNATIONAL SHARES FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT LISTED PROPERTY AND INFRASTRUCTURE FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT SELECT EQUITIES FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT SMALLER COMPANIES FUND, VAN EYK BLUEPRINT VOLATILITY BUFFER FUND, LONSEC LIMITED, ARTEFACT PARTNERS LLP, PYNE GOULD CORPORATION, MOORE STEPHENS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, MACQUARIE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED, ARTEFACT PARTNERS GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND, AUSTRALASIAN WEALTH INVESTMENTS LIMITED – ASX AWI, COMMODITY STRATEGIES LIMITED

Trilogy takes action against KPMG, partner

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Original article by Sarah Danckert
The Australian – Page: 18 : 2-Oct-14

A lawsuit is being launched by Trilogy Funds Management against KPMG partner Jillian Richards, as well as the accounting firm. They are accused of unconscionable, misleading and deceptive conduct, in relation to the City Pacific First Mortgage Fund. Trilogy assumed management duties for the entity when parent City Pacific collapsed in 2008-09, and claims that KPMG performed a flawed audit. However, no action over the affair has been taken by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission

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TRILOGY FUNDS MANAGEMENT LIMITED, PACIFIC FIRST MORTGAGE FUND, CITY PACIFIC LIMITED, KPMG AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Banks settle case with liquidators of ABC

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Original article by Michael Bennet
The Australian – Page: 21 : 8-Jul-14

The liquidators of ABC Learning Centres have reached an in-principle settlement with a syndicate of banks. The compromise was reached just before the case against the lenders was to be heard in the Federal Court of Australia. Bentham IMF was meant to argue that the banks "jumped the creditors’ queue". Child care facilities operator ABC Learning Centres collapsed in November 2008, with debts of $A1.6 billion

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BENTHAM IMF LIMITED – ASX IMF, ABC LEARNING CENTRES LIMITED, COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA – ASX CBA, NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED – ASX NAB, WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION – ASX WBC, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED – ASX ANZ, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA