FED: DPP moves to freeze alleged fraudster s assets

AAP General News (Australia)
02-17-1999
FED: DPP moves to freeze alleged fraudster s assets

The Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions has moved to freeze the assets of a man
accused of trying to defraud the Department of Finance of almost $9 million.

The DPP made an order in the ACT Supreme Court to freeze the assets of DAVID JOHN MUIR and
his company Callform.

Justice KEN CRISPIN has stood the matter over until February 26.

MUIR, 30, of the inner Canberra suburb of Griffith, allegedly defrauded the department of
$8.725 million in April and September last year by transferring funds to outside accounts.

The money was allegedly used to buy shares in mining companies.

MUIR was arrested on January 29 and will appear in the ACT Magistrates Court on Friday.

The alleged fraud took place while MUIR was working as a financial consultant for the
government at Albury-based corporate advisory firm Davis Samuel Pty Ltd.





Special Minister of State CHRIS ELLISON yesterday said the accountancy firm Ernst and Young
was conducting an exhaustive review of financial reporting procedures in the department to
ensure fraud or unauthorised transactions don't occur.

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KEYWORD: MUIR (CANBERRA)

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