Found Deceased Australia - Melissa Caddick, 49, Sydney, NSW, 12 Nov 2020 #8

[drsleuth]

Kate McClymont

@Kate_McClymont
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Anthony Marcus Koletti has just begun his evidence at the inquest into the disappearance and presumed death of his wife, Melissa Caddick.

Anthony Koletti said he has tried to give a truthful account as his “thought processes evolved,” the inquest into the presumed death of his wife Melissa Caddick.

 

[drsleuth]

Kate McClymont

Koletti, a hairdresser, said he met his then client Melissa Caddick in 2005. He said their romantic relationship commenced on a trip to Cyprus in 2011, when Caddick was married to her first husband and was living with him in the UK. #Caddickinquest

 

[drsleuth]

Kate McClymont

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Anthony Koletti said that his wife's earnings and tax returns were "not really something I paid attention to...I am not really financially savvy." Koletti is giving evidence at the coronial inquest into Melissa Caddick's presumed death.

 

[drsleuth]

Kate McClymont

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Anthony Koletti has admitted that in his "music" he claimed the AFP, who raided his house with ASIC in Nov 2020, arrived at 5am. But only a few days ago he went through CCTV footage and now says they didn't arrive until 6am. #Caddickinquest

 

[drsleuth]

Kate McClymont


At no point during the day did you ask why are these people here? No, I didn’t, replied Koletti about 21 people raiding their house and seizing his wife's things. "I had no questions for her as I honestly believed she had done nothing wrong, she was a straightshooter."

 

[drsleuth]

Kate McClymont


Koletti: “I wouldn’t say that I wasn't confused." Journalist in media room: "I am bloody confused!"

 

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Kate McClymont


"I wasn’t aware or not aware of what I could or couldn’t say about the ASIC investigation," was Koletti's explanation as to why he told the media conference that his wife was "normal" the night before she disappeared. #caddickinquest

 

[drsleuth]

Kate McClymont


Koletti said he was too intimidated by the police to go to the fridge or use the tap in his own house during the ASIC/AFP on 11 November, 2020. Melissa Caddick disappeared the following morning. Her foot washed up in February 2021. #Caddickinquest

 

[drsleuth]

Jamie McKinnell


The Melissa Caddick inquest is about to be played a song from Anthony Koletti's album about the raid on their Dover Heights home.

Amid troubles playing Spotify to the court, Mr Koletti says: "Look I have heard it before". Instead, we're being read the content of the song. Mr Koletti is asked whether it's a true account. "Most of it's true, some of it's dramatised," he says.

 

[drsleuth]

Kate McClymont

@Kate_McClymont
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Unfortunately

we were about to hear track one of Koletti's "musical endeavours" regarding the ASIC raid on his house. However, there have been technical glitches. Much disappointment in the media room.

 

[drsleuth]

Kate McClymont


Koletti said his wife Melissa Caddick smoked three Winfield Golds a day in his search dog questionnaire. Now he is saying he was describing himself. #Caddickinquest

 

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Kate McClymont

Far out: Channel 7 paid Anthony Koletti $150,000 for the interview with him which subsequently won a Kennedy award for Scoop of the Year.

 

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Kate McClymont
@Kate_McClymont
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Unfortunately

we were about to hear track one of Koletti's "musical endeavours" regarding the ASIC raid on his house. However, there have been technical glitches. Much disappointment in the media room.

No excuse whatsoever for these so-called technical glitches. It's the year 2022 and courts are supposed to have competent technicians on hand.

 

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Kate McClymont
Far out: Channel 7 paid Anthony Koletti $150,000 for the interview with him which subsequently won a Kennedy award for Scoop of the Year.

And yet he claims he is not financially savvy. Some scoop!

 

[JBowie]

Kate McClymont

Koletti said his wife Melissa Caddick smoked three Winfield Golds a day in his search dog questionnaire. Now he is saying he was describing himself. #Caddickinquest

Frankly, IMO, AK couldn't lie straight in bed.

 

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Kate McClymont

At no point during the day did you ask why are these people here? No, I didn’t, replied Koletti about 21 people raiding their house and seizing his wife's things. "I had no questions for her as I honestly believed she had done nothing wrong, she was a straightshooter."

Naive or a knave?

 

[JBowie]

The court has heard in November 2019 and June 2020, a financial advisor contacted ASIC to report that Caddick was using her Australian Financial Services Licence number to run her company, Maliver.

Six words that sparked conwoman's downfall

One investor tells a court of the chance meeting that brought down Melissa Caddick.

www.nzherald.co.nz

ASIC really has to be made to answer for its inaction on this direct report of a clearly illegal act way back in 2019.

 

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“Was the version you gave to Channel 7 truthful?” asked Downing. “At that point of time I believed it was truthful,” Koletti replied.



Thirty hours after his wife disappeared, Koletti reported to police that Caddick was missing. On that day Koletti told police that he woke just before 6am and his wife had gone. He said he did not think anything of it at the time, as he thought she’d gone out to exercise “which she always does every day”.

Downing put to him that the CCTV footage from their home showed that in the month before his wife disappeared, she had “not once” left early in the morning to exercise as she’d recently had surgery on her right toe.

Koletti then offered that his wife had no habits. “She used to do this, she used to do that. She changed a lot,” he told the inquest.

Husband’s account of Caddick disappearance ‘confusing’, coroner says

Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan admitted to being “confused” after Anthony Koletti repeatedly contradicted himself about the circumstances of his wife’s disappearance.

www.smh.com.au

 

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Today, Mr Koletti insisted that on each occasion when he has provided accounts about the days following the raid - including in a recorded police interview, two statements, a media conference and an affidavit - he has provided truthful accounts.

"Yes, what I believed so at that point in time, considering when it was," he said.

"What do you mean by that?" Mr Downing asked.

"My thought process has evolved," he replied.

Caddick's husband didn't ask her why their Sydney home was being raided, inquest told

Anthony Koletti was shocked when ASIC and the AFP raided the home he shared with his wife Melissa Caddick in 2020 but didn't ask the alleged fraudster why she thought a search warrant had been granted, an inquest hears.

www.abc.net.au

 

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This SMH article contains a 4 minute video of Federal agents searching Caddick's house and also a walk though. It gives some idea of the number of agents involved and the scale of the operation.

The fact that Koletti could have witnessed that and yet say that he didn't believe Caddick was in trouble speaks volumes to me of either his lack of grip on reality or his utter gullibility, or maybe both.

‘I gulped’: Caddick client received money back after learning of ASIC probe

Dominique Ogilvie, who had $2.5 million invested with Melissa Caddick, told an inquest into her presumed death that she never spoke to her again after funds were returned.

www.smh.com.au