The father and son team accused of torching their Ravenswood pub for the insurance money have been convicted and sentenced. A fire on 9 June 2014 destroyed the Junction Hotel, owned by the Jansen family. In the following months, police observed persons of interest and intercepted phone calls between 65-year-old Jozef Jansen and his son […]
Recent activity by AUSTRAC (Australia’s financial intelligence agency, governing anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing) is believed to be part of plans for increased reporting by hospitality operators, says consultant firm Risk Training Australia. Submitted by Phillippa Lloyd, Risk Training Australia AUSTRAC recently published a notice advising all pubs and clubs they do not have
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The alarming increase in assaults in venues, particularly on staff, is evidence of the prevalence of ice in Australia, says AHA SA general manager Ian Horne. Figures out of SA’s Consumer Business Services show pub and club operators in South Australia exercised their right to issue a ban from the premises of up to six
Two brothers are facing charges – separately and together – over alleged matters of fraud at two of Townsville’s favourite pubs, where they worked. 33-year-old Chris Gregory was assistant manager at the Mad Cow Hotel. He came to the attention of police in relation to the theft of around $300,000 from the hotel over two
Three men have been arrested without charge for a pub fight that saw a 51-year-old man die, as a Victorian magistrate poses a clamp-down on alcohol-fuelled violence. Shortly before midnight on Friday (20 October) witnesses say a group of people began fighting outside a pub in Eildon, in eastern central Victoria. Greg Mitchem, from Frankston
A pub employee has been jailed for racking up almost $50,000 in debt on the hotel’s account, in a flurry of betting that “spiralled out of control”. The Geelong Advertiser reports the case of 28-year-old Jonathan Bush, appearing before Geelong Magistrate’s Courts on the charge of obtaining financial advantage by deception over a betting spree
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UPDATE: A publican that defrauded the TAB of more than $22,000 in order to pay wages and bills has been found guilty and sentenced to corrections orders. David Anthony Brace was manager at the Red Steer Hotel-Motel and Palm & Pawn Tavern, in Wagga Wagga, working for an owner who resided in Queensland. He reportedly
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UPDATE: One of the men charged with the coward-punch death of teenager Cole Miller last year has walked free on time served. 21-year-old New Zealander Daniel Maxwell and his friend 22-year-old Armstrong Renata both plead guilty to charges arising from their roles in the death of Miller, which followed an incident in the early hours
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A very determined thief is facing charges after being arrested attempting to wheel a large safe he stole from a Rozelle pub down Victoria Road in a shopping trolley. NSW Police reported the case of a man spotted manoeuvring a safe estimated to weigh hundreds of kilograms along busy Victoria Road at Rozelle. It is
A gaming room employee of the Young Australian Hotel has been sentenced to nine months’ jail and ordered to repay $12,957 she stole over a period of nearly two years. 29-year-old mother of two Ashlee Walker appeared again last week before Bundaberg Magistrates Court, over charges relating to the theft of money between August 2015
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