Adviser guilty of fraud
A formerAMPadviser has pleaded guilty to 23 charges laid by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
ASIC alleges that Laurence John Tobin obtained $314,000 from investors under false pretences with intent to defraud.
ASIC says Tobin obtained the money from investors supposedly to invest in a scheme called the Twinelles Mortgage Reserve Fund.
However, according to ASIC, the scheme never existed and Tobin used the money for his own benefit.
Tobin was an adviser with AMP for 26 years, from 1970 to 1996. He was declared bankrupt in November 1996, according to the securities watchdog.
Tobin left AMP and continued to act as an adviser, while his clients did not know that his association with AMP was no longer in place, and continued to entrust him with the management of their financial affairs.
According to an Australian Securities and Investments Commission media spokesperson, Tobin obtained the sum from investors over a seven year period, which began before he was declared bankrupt, and continued for some time after.
Tobin will be sentenced in the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney on July 19, 2002.
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