Tag: Rob Aspinall

Aspinall’s jail term sticks as crown appeal fails

Aspinall’s jail term sticks as crown appeal fails

| 07/11/2016 | 7 Comments

(CNS): The appeal court has upheld the three-and-a-half-year prison term given to former Deloitte director Robert Aspinall (38) after attempts by the crown to see the white-collar criminal serve more time failed. The three-judge panel confirmed his sentence after hearing submissions Monday from Simon Russel Flint QC, who had argued that the sentence given to […]

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Spending stolen cash not money laundering

Spending stolen cash not money laundering

| 03/08/2016 | 53 Comments

(CNS): The director of public prosecutions has been accused of over-charging Robert Aspinall after laying money laundering charges against him when what he was doing was spending the cash he had stolen from the funds he was liquidating. Visiting judge, Justice Tim Owen found the indictment setting out the charges against the former Deloitte financial executive […]

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Cooperation cuts jail time in $500k theft case

Cooperation cuts jail time in $500k theft case

| 01/08/2016 | 97 Comments

(CNS): A British man who stole almost $500,000 from two funds when he was a director with Deloitte has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail. The judge said that although Robert Aspinall (38) was motivated by “sheer avarice”, the hallmark of the case was the high level of cooperation that the […]

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White-collar thief to pay back $500k+

White-collar thief to pay back $500k+

| 29/07/2016 | 38 Comments

(CNS): Robert Aspinall pleaded guilty to charges of theft, forgery and transferring criminal property on Friday when he appeared in court to be sentenced, and formally admitted stealing half a million dollars from two funds he worked on when he was a director with Deloitte. The court also heard that the former financial executive has […]

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Bean counter charged with 14 fraud offences

Bean counter charged with 14 fraud offences

| 17/06/2016 | 0 Comments

(CNS): An offshore finance expert has been charged with a catalogue of financial crimes, including theft, forgery, false accounting, transferring, converting and using criminal property. Robert Neil Aspinall (37) from George Town, who was arrested last month in connection with the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of dollars in relation to funds for which he […]

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