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 and the oil-for-wheat scandal: how Australia's wheat exporter paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein
The Cole Inquiry found AWB Limited paid more than $290 million in illegal kickbacks to the Iraqi regime, breaching UN sanctions. Here's how it unravelled.
- ArticleFirepower: the fuel pill scheme that burned through millions before it collapsed
Firepower promised a pill that would slash fuel bills and sponsored Australian sport. It collapsed owing hundreds of millions, and ASIC pursued its director for years.
- 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 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.