Fraud & misconduct
When the numbers didn’t add up.
- Article7-Eleven's wage theft: how a convenience store empire shortchanged thousands of workers
The 2015 exposé of systematic wage underpayment across 7-Eleven's Australian franchise network triggered one of the country's largest worker repayment schemes. Here's what the record shows.
- ArticleAWB oil-for-wheat scandal: the Saddam kickbacks
The oil-for-wheat scandal explained: the Cole Inquiry found AWB paid about $290 million in kickbacks to Iraq's regime, breaching UN sanctions.
- ArticleFreedom Foods to Noumi: inside the write-down that gutted a food stock
How Freedom Foods went from ASX darling to a $590m write-down and a rebrand as Noumi, and what the regulators found along the way.
- ArticleThe Firepower fuel pill scheme that collapsed
The Firepower fuel pill promised big savings and sponsored Australian sport, then collapsed owing hundreds of millions. Here is how ASIC pursued its director.
- ArticleThe Plutus Payroll fraud: how a payroll company became a $105m tax scheme
Inside the Plutus Payroll fraud: the second-tier company structure that siphoned PAYG withholding tax, the arrests, and what the courts found.
- ArticleThe PwC tax leak: how confidential Treasury advice ended up helping clients dodge new laws
How confidential government tax-policy consultations at PwC were allegedly used to help clients sidestep new anti-avoidance laws, and what the Senate inquiry and fallout revealed.