The husband of conwoman Melissa Caddick has accused Australia’s corporate watchdog of ‘dehumanising’ his wife as it investigated her $23.5 million theft from 74 investors.
Anthony Koletti, 40, has penned an explosive letter to the Federal Court containing several allegations about Isabella Allen, who is at the helm of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation into his wife.
Caddick, 49, vanished without a trace in November 2020, one day after ASIC and the NSW Police raided her $6.2m Dover Heights home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
The fraudster was declared dead four months later in February 2021 after her decaying foot drifted ashore 400km south of Sydney.
Anthony Koletti, 40, has penned a scathing letter to the Federal Court accusing an ASIC investigator of ‘dehumanising’ his conwoman wife, Melissa Caddick (pictured together)
In the letter obtained by the ABC, Koletti said he will never know if his wife was murdered or took her own life because ASIC seized CCTV from the couple’s home.
‘The reason there is no proof of Melissa’s disappearance is because Isabella Allen removed my CCTV recorder from my premises leaving it both unsecured and unprotected,’ Mr Koletti said.
Mr Koletti further claimed Ms Allen laughed at him once during a meeting when he raised the possibility his wife could be dead.
He also accused her of abusing her position of power during the raid, which he said should have been supervised by the AFP.
‘Melissa was dehumanised in front of her son and I whilst the AFP were upstairs enjoying our view and having a merry old time,’ he said.
The hairdresser-turned-DJ also claimed his wife was innocent, accusing authorities of trying to defame them both.
‘Melissa lost investor funds trading on the stock market which is clearly visible through her Australian commsec trading account,’ the letter continued.
The note was sent last month as court-appointed receivers sell Caddick’s luxury properties, exotic cars and jewellery to repay the millions she swindled from investors as part of a Ponzi scheme.
Many of Caddick’s victims were friends and family who trusted the fake financial adviser with their savings, only for her to spend their hard-earned nest eggs on a lavish lifestyle replete with overseas holidays, fancy cars, and designer goods.
Mr Koletti claimed he will never know the cause of her death because CCTV footage was taken from their home during an ASIC raid (pictured) the day before she disappeared
Caddick was declared dead after her decomposing foot washed ashore in an running shoe (pictured) in February 2021
On March, the Federal Court ruled that any money left in Caddick’s multiple bank accounts, credit accounts and shares must be handed to liquidators.
New documents publicly released on Thursday also reveal Mr Koletti’s objections to liquidators selling the couple’s multi-million dollar home, where he still resides with Caddick’s teenage son.
In an email dated November 2021, Mr Koletti told liquidator Bruce Gleeson he ‘refused any further inspections’ of his property ‘given the child like, and bullying nature [of] your lawyer’.
He later allowed Mr Gleeson to visit the home, which was bought with investor’s money and is yet to be sold, but prohibited photo taking.
The fresh allegations come after the NSW Police filed an application for an apprehended violence order (AVO) against Mr Koletti in February to protect Ms Allen, which will be considered by a Sydney court later this month.
At the time, Mr Kolletti said he had ‘no idea’ why the AVO was filed, but described it as an attempt to ‘villainise’ him, vowing to fight it in court.
‘I have no idea why they would be taking an AVO out, I guess it’s ASIC just throwing their weight around to try and make me look like some kind of villain,’ he previously told The Australian.
‘They’re villainising my wife and now they villainising me, that’s what this world’s come to. It’s just ridiculous.’
Mr Koletti’s blue 2016 Audi R8 coupe and a black 2016 Mercedes-Benz CLA45 wagon belonging to Caddick were sold at auction by Pickles for $295,000 and $66,250 respectively earlier this year.
AVO conditions can stop defendants from approaching or contacting the protected person and being within a certain distance of their home or workplace.
Liquidators are working to sell of Caddick’s belongings, including her luxury $6.2million Dover Heights home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs (pictured), to repay the 74 investors she swindled of millions of dollars
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