Similar to a few of you I contacted ASIC and GT yesterday with regards to the auction that I personally attended Saturday, of the property in Tony's name. They told me the same, that all assets and accounts of the company and in the director's names have been frozen. I asked how with this being the case an auction could take place where the house was sold for over $2.4 million and was told they are looking into it. I know that with the current state of affairs indicating a shortfall of investors funds of somewhere between $110-140 million that another $2.4m is a drop in the ocean once spread out over the 4-500 investors. However it sickens me that if that sale goes through and any other selling of property and assets that we don't know about also manages to get through then that is a direct profit for these criminals that they will benefit from in the long term. After what is hopefully a lengthy prison sentence. On top of this if the government through ASIC or the NSW DOJ or whatever agency it falls under slaps a giant fine on Tony, David et al. then surely those fines (if paid at all which I know is unlikely) should be returned to investors. I'd be shattered if the government took any revenue from this. Is it possible to look into the tax affairs of the company and directors? Surely any money paid there should also be returned. I know I may be over reaching but so many people are going to go through significant hardship, potentially losing houses, assets, relationships and what not and if this can be avoided at all I feel like we should be kept informed and everything made transparent as quickly as it possibly can be.
I am fortunate in that although I had a great deal of money invested I can still live for the moment without truly significant strain. Six months from now though will be a different story, I will be on an absolute knife edge financially and I have to budget very carefully to even make it that far.