Curtis out after year ‘in China’

AFTER a year of “business in China” convicted investment banker Oliver Curtis has walked free from a NSW jail onto a private plane and into the arms of his two young children.

The husband of high-profile Sydney publicist Roxy Jacenko was jailed in June 2016 for conspiring to commit 45 illicit trades through which the 31year-old and then-friend John Hartman swindled $1.43 million.

Ms Jacenko, who visited her husband regularly while he was jailed in Cooma, reportedly told their children that “daddy was in China on business”.

Wearing ripped jeans, a white T-shirt with an openzipped hoodie with a baseball cap, Curtis yesterday morning walked out of Cooma Correctional Centre flanked by a private security guard after spending a year locked up.

He made his way through the waiting media pack to a black Range Rover.

“I’m just looking forward to getting home, guys,” Curtis told reporters.

The Range Rover then drove to Cooma’s Snowy Mountains Airport 13km away.

The Supreme Court trial was told the former banker made trades between May 2007 and June 2008 based on confidential information that Hartman possessed as an employee of Orion Asset Management.