PROSECUTION OUTCOMES 2018-19:

Money for beachside getaway Varsity Lakes travel agent Riley Lance Martin was fined $500 in Southport Magistrates Court for failing to supply services after charges were laid by the OFT.

The sole director of Exchange Travel Pty Ltd, trading as Travelalot, pleaded guilty to one charge of wrongly accepting payment and failing to supply a service under the ACL.

Online lingerie seller fails to deliver

Coomera online retailer Marcel Ivan Shears was fined $8000 and ordered to pay more than $1600 in compensation in Southport Magistrates Court. Shears, sole operator of two online underwear and lingerie retail stores advertising as Isabella’s Passion and Blush Bras and Lingerie, was found guilty of three counts of failing to supply goods and four counts of making false or misleading representations under the ACL.

Agent permanently disqualified from the industry Former Shailer Park and Gold Coast real estate agent Robert Ian Campbell was convicted in Beenleigh Magistrates court for misusing clients’ trust account money.

Campbell was sentenced to three months imprisonment, wholly suspended, with an operational period of 18 months.

Motor dealers and company hoodwinked consumers

Carrara businessman Andrew Fraser-Scott and his company pleaded guilty in Southport Magistrates Court after charges were laid by the OFT.

Mr Fraser-Scott and AFS Corporation Pty Ltd, trading as Brisbane Dealer Auctions and The Cartel Dealers in Southport, pleaded guilty to 11 breaches of the Motor Dealers and Chattel Auctioneers Act 2014 (MDCA) and 66 breaches of the ACL. Mr FraserScott was fined $30,000 and AFS Corporation Pty Ltd $20,000. The company was also ordered to pay $33,269 in compensation. No conviction was recorded.

Law outbids unlicensed Gold Coast motor dealer

Southport woman Emilia Lloyd was fined $6000 in the Southport Magistrates Court after being found guilty of carrying on the business of a motor dealer while unlicensed under the MDCA. Ms Lloyd was reported after being accused of bidding for vehicles at a dealersonly auction while unlicensed.

Tradesman ordered to pay $253,500 for unfinished jobs

Ali Faraj was ordered to pay more than $253,500 in fines and compensation in Southport Magistrates Court after being found guilty of making false representations about holding a Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC) builder’s licence. Mr Faraj, who used the aliases Ali Mousselmani, Kamil Kassem and Kamil Mousselmani, was also found guilty of three counts of accepting payment and failing to supply goods and services within a reasonable time. He was fined $60,000 and ordered to pay $193,500 in compensation.

Property manager busted siphoning trust money

Leslee Ann Hall was ordered to pay $1200 in the Southport Magistrates Court for stealing from her employer’s trust account. She pleaded guilty to 21 counts of wrongfully converting trust money and was fined $1200 and $96.15 in court costs. Ms Hall made 21 unauthorised transactions totalling $2493.66 from her employer’s trust account for her own use.

Auto supplies seller Southport’s Luke Glassford was fined $2000 plus court costs in Southport Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to two counts of wrongly accepting payment for goods he failed to supply. Glassford was the sole trader of East Coast Tyre and Auto which operated from a shopfront in Southport and an online store.