Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions

Tony Iervasi ran a trading business called ‘Courtenay Trading’ based in Bondi Junction NSW, in which clients deposited funds for the purported purpose of investing in foreign exchange and futures trading. From its inception, the trading business was a Ponzi scheme. Mr Iervasi defrauded about 585 investors, who invested over $180 million for the purpose of trading those funds.

Ms Tahra Wyntjes lodged 27 false Business Activity Statements (BAS) with the ATO, overstating the total sales, GST on sales and GST on purchases purportedly made for her cleaning business. On 16 October 2024, Ms Wyntjes was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, with a non-parole period of two years and four months. She was also ordered to pay $599,349 in reparations to the Commissioner of Taxation.

In 2019, two Sydney skip bin and waste processing businesses and their respective CEOs engaged in cartel conduct by agreeing to set higher prices for their building and demolition waste services.