Moving millions of dollars from Australia to New Zealand - Does the ATO ignore suspicious dealings

 A Kiwi used a strange process to move over $65 million from Australia to New Zealand.

The Australian Taxation Office has wide-ranging data gathering and analysis capabilities. It is inconceivable that it did not detect this case and cannot detect many cases like the one described here. 

Records available in the New Zealand company office show: 

1. $11 million was transferred between a set of New Zealand companies created a few days before, and removed soon after, where one person controlled all the companies used: 

2. $54 million was transferred between a set of New Zealand companies created a few days before, and removed soon after, where the same person controlled all the companies used: 

The destination of the first transfer, of $11 million, is mentioned again in an Annual Report of the company named Stockton Assets Limited: 

The source of the $millions

Companies in Australia are identified as shareholders in Priority Investments Limited, the New Zealand company name used in the transfer of the $millions: 

Australian company office records point to two significant pieces of information about these two companies: 

1. The person who controlled the New Zealand companies that received the funds is the same person who controlled these Australian companies, and

2. Rocksprings Enterprises Limited, the New Zealand company that received the funds in New Zealand - as a loan - was the ultimate owner of the two Australian companies that was the source of the money sent from Australia to New Zealand.

A List of Source Documents and Entities Involved

The documents are available for browsing at google drive => See the list of documents here

A list of source documents and entities involved

 

1.       Priority Investments Limited and subsidiary companies

a.        Annual Report for the period ended 30 June 1997

b.       Signed by Director John Leslie Thompson 29 September 2000

c.        Lodged with Company Office 12 March 2001

2.       Stockton Assets Limited

a.        Annual Report for the period ended 30 June 1997

b.       Signed by Director John Leslie Thompson 29 September 2000

c.        Lodged with Company Office 12 March 2001

3.       Priority Investments Limited

a.        Annual Report for the period ended 30 June 1998

b.       Signed by Director John Leslie Thompson 29 September 2000

c.        Lodged with Company Office 12 March 2001

4.       Priority Investments Limited

a.        Annual Report for the period ended 30 June 1999

b.       Signed by Director John Leslie Thompson 24 December 2000

c.        Lodged with Company Office 12 March 2021

5.       Priority Investments Limited

a.        Annual Report for the period ended 30 June 2000

b.       Signed by Director John Leslie Thompson 25 October 2001

c.        Lodged with Company Office ?

6.       Priority Investments Limited (862094)

a.        Annual return for 2000 – online document filing

b.       Directors and Shareholders –

Directors

John Leslie Thompson

685 Peninsula Road, Kelvin Heights, Queenstown, New Zealand

Shareholders

Oriano Golo (sic Gold) Pty Limited – 11,445,100 shares

Level 1, 21-23 Grosvenor Street, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089, Australia

Technomin Australia Pty Ltd – 54,404,000 shares

Level 1, 21-23 Grosvenor Street, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089, Australia

c.        Is the company a subsidiary of a company incorporated outside New Zealand? Yes

d.       Are 25% or more of voting shares held by a person / body corporate ordinarily resident outside New Zealand? Yes

7.       Priority Investments Limited

a.        Annual Report for the period ended 30 June 2001

b.       Signed by Director John Leslie Thompson 25 October 2001

c.        Lodged with Company Office ?

8.       Priority Investments Limited

a.        Annual Report for the period ended 30 June 2002

b.       Signed by Director John Leslie Thompson 29 January 2003

c.        Lodged with Company Office 24 March 2003

9.       Priority Investments Limited

a.        Statement of Financial Performance for the period ended 30 June 2003

b.       Lodged with Company Office ?

10.  Priority Investments Limited

a.        Annual Report for the period ended 30 June 2004

b.       Signed by Director John Leslie Thompson 23 November 2004

c.        Lodged with Company Office ?

11.  Priority Investments Limited

a.        Change of Shareholders – lodged 28 November 2006

Shareholders – Current

Rocksprings Enterprises Limited – 65,849,100 shares

685 Peninsula Road, Kelvin Heights, Queenstown, New Zealand

Shareholders – Previous

Technomin Australia Pty Ltd – 54,404,000 shares

Level 1, 21-23 Grosvenor Street, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089, Australia

Shareholders – Removed

Oriano Golo (sic Gold) Pty Limited – 11,445,100 shares

Level 1, 21-23 Grosvenor Street, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089, Australia

12.  Priority Investments Limited

a.        Change of Shareholders – lodged 3 April 2009

Shareholders - Current

Wayne Jones – 65,849,100 shares

12 Llandilo Avenue, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia

Shareholders - Previous

Rocksprings Enterprises Limited – 65,849,100 shares

685 Peninsula Road, Kelvin Heights, Queenstown, New Zealand

13.  Technomin Australia Pty Limited

a.        ASIC Current and Historical Information

Director – 25 Jul 1986 to 4 Nov 2017

John Leslie Thompson

685 Peninsula Road, Kelvin Heights, Queenstown, New Zealand

Director – 4 Jun 2008 to 27 Jun 2009

Rebecca Catherine Thompson

20 Falls Street, Leichhardt, NSW 2040

Director – 28 Jan 1997 to 4 Jun 2008

Malcolm John Kendall

12 Endeavour Street, Sylvania, NSW 2224

Registered Address – 17 Oct 1994 to 29 Oct 2007

Level 1, 21-23 Grosvenor Street, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089

Ultimate Holding Company – 28 Jan 1996 to 18 Jan 2015

Rocksprings Enterprises Limited

14.  Oriana Gold Pty Limited – 11 Aug 1994 to 10 Dec 2007

a.        ASIC Current and Historical Information

Director – 5 Jun 2008

Wayne Jones

12 Llandilo Avenue, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia

Director – 25 Sep 1986 to 5 Jun 2008

John Leslie Thompson

685 Peninsula Road, Kelvin Heights, Queenstown, New Zealand

Director – 28 Jan 1997 to 4 Jun 2008

Malcolm John Kendall

12 Endeavour Street, Sylvania, NSW 2224

Registered Address – 17 Oct 1994 to 29 Oct 2007

Level 1, 21-23 Grosvenor Street, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089

Ultimate Holding Company

Rocksprings Enterprises Limited

Shareholder – 16 May 2024

Wayne Jones

12 Llandilo Avenue, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia

Previous Shareholder – 26 Jun 2008

Agriwealth Pty Limited

PO BOX 718, Neutral Bay NSW 2089

Previous Shareholder – 24 Oct 2007

Technomin Australia Limited

PO BOX 718, Neutral Bay NSW 2089

15.  Rocksprings Enterprises Limited

a.        New Zealand Company Extract

Incorporated – 9 Jun 1994

Director

John Leslie Thompson

685 Peninsula Road, Kelvin Heights, Queenstown, New Zealand

Shareholder

John Leslie Thompson – 117 shares

685 Peninsula Road, Kelvin Heights, Queenstown, New Zealand