SFO gets top ASIC litigator as new boss

SFO gets top ASIC litigator as new boss
Sept 11 (BusinessDesk) – The new head of the New Zealand Serious Fraud Office is an Australian, Julie Read, currently Special Counsel (Litigation) at the Australian Securities and Exchange Commission. After a decade at ASIC, the Australian equivalent of the Financial Markets Authority, Read will move from her current base in Tasmania, where she has also been the ASIC state commissioner since 2002, to Auckland, where the 50-strong SFO is headquartered. Read “is a senior public servant with significant experience at executive level managing wo...