Bublitz to serve home detention following appeal

Bublitz to serve home detention following appeal
Victoria Young
By Victoria Young Aug. 16 (BusinessDesk) - A partially successful appeal will see former Viaduct Capital and Mutual Finance executive Paul Bublitz leave prison for home detention after some convictions were quashed.  Earlier this year, Bublitz was convicted of several charges of theft by a person in a special relationship and for making a false statement as company promoter. Bruce McKay and Richard Blackwood were convicted as parties to the offences.  The charges followed the collapse of the finance companies which owed $17 million and...

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