CBL co-accused is CFO Mulholland

Mon, 14 Dec 2020

Name suppression for the second defendant in the Serious Fraud Office’s case relating to the downfall of CBL Corporation has lapsed.The man defending charges alongside former managing director Peter Harris is Carden Mulholland, the insurer’s former chief financial officer.The Supreme Court today confirmed no appeal had been filed in relation to a Dec. 7 judgment refusing Mulholland continued name suppression.Mulholland faces charges of theft by a person in a special relationship, obtaining by deception and false accounting. He was C...

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