the Law final catches up with Andy Landeryou

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and about time too

the guy is a scumbag, lets hope they find him guilty and put him in gaol.

one of the worst labor identities, father and son IMO.
 

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Forgery alleged on contract benefiting union leader

By Martin Daly
December 17, 2004

A Melbourne man testified yesterday that a signature on a contract giving tens of thousands of dollars a year to a company secretly run by a former president of the Melbourne University Student Union is a forgery.

In the Victorian Supreme Court, lawyers for the liquidator winding up MUSU examined a contract for services to the union by a company called the BV Sachsen Group Australia Pty Ltd. BV Sachsen was set up by Darren Kenneth Ray, MUSU president in 2002, who used the name Marcus Kemp to mask his identity and win lucrative business deals from the union.

In 2003, new union president Scott Crawford signed an agreement that substantially increased payments to the company.

Ray and Crawford are still students at the university.

The new deal gave Ray's company up to $30,000 more a year on the contract, initially listed at $43,000 a year, for three years.

The document was purportedly witnessed by Miles Clemens, who had been hired by Ray, alias, Marcus Kemp, to work for BV Sachsen.

Mr Clemens told Garry Bigmore, QC, for the union's liquidator, that the signature was not his.

"I have never witnessed a signature between BV Sachsen and MUSU," Mr Clemens said.

MUSU, with a budget of about $14 million a year, was dissolved in February, allegedly after widespread theft, fraud and the awarding of suspect contracts at huge financial disadvantage to the union.

Ray's company is one of a number uncovered by liquidator Dean McVeigh, from the Melbourne firm Foremans, in which former members of the union and some of its former leaders allegedly got lucrative contracts based on friendships and Labor Party affiliations with elected union office holders.

The court has already heard that Labor Party figure Andrew Landeryou - now being sought under an arrest warrant to compel him to appear in the case - and former MUSU president Benjamin Cass, also known as Duncan Fisher, used the "Marbain Group" to win lucrative union business.

The Marbain Group was given a union contract for the lease of university food outlets, allegedly on highly preferential terms, and then on-sold the rights for a profit of more than $1 million. The liquidator has traced the money to a bank in Hong Kong. The liquidator's lawyer was yesterday granted permission to hand their examiners' files to police to assist in criminal investigations.

Student union paper trail leads to HK bank
By Martin Daly
December 10, 2004

Liquidators are seeking a court order to find out where $1 million from food and drink contracts went.

Investigators have uncovered a paper trail leading to a Chinese bank where $1 million from an allegedly suspect deal involving the former Melbourne University Student Union was parked.

The money came from a deal involving student leaders and Labor Party powerbrokers and friends, on and off campus, who are alleged to have improperly got lucrative university food and drink contracts and then on-sold them for $1.2 million - most, or all or it, profit.

Most of the money was transferred from the ANZ Bank in Lygon Street, Carlton, to the account of Wellwin Nominees at the headquarters of the Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong, but it disappeared from the bank the next day. The bank refused to tell the union liquidators where the money went, and yesterday they petitioned courts in Hong Kong to order the bank to open its files so they could track and recoup the money.

The cash transfer bears a signature purporting to be that of of Matthew Keats, a director of Marbain, the company granted leases to two outlets and a licence for a third. Gary Bigmore, QC, on behalf of the liquidators, described Keats in the Supreme Court of Victoria as a "stooge" director.

The court has heard suggestions that Keats was used to front Marbain, because those allegedly behind it, Labor Party identity Andrew Landeryou - son of former ALP powerbroker, Bill Landeryou - and former MUSU president Benjamin Cass, wanted to mask their involvement.

The liquidators will also move today in the Supreme Court for an arrest warrant for Andrew Landeryou, sacked as president of the MUSU in 1991 for alleged mismanagement, and who liquidators have repeatedly failed to serve with a summons to appear in court, despite sending emails and voice mails and trying to serve him through his wife, Kimberley Kitching.

The once-powerful and wealthy students' union collapsed amid allegations of widespread fraud and in February was ordered to be wound up by the Supreme Court.

The collapse began after the then union president, Darren Ray, and general secretary Tim Lysle Williams, signed a contract with the Melbourne-based Optima Development Group, with which Andrew Landeryou is alleged to have been involved, to build student accommodation in the city at a cost of $46 million, a deal auditors warned could send the union broke. Mr Landeryou has been alleged in court to have asked a factory worker, Andrew Rigby, to be a stooge director of Optima.

Darren Ray and Tim Lisle-Williams also signed commercial agreements on December 27, 2002, granting Marbain leases on the MUSU bar, known as U-Bar, on the food outlet Dough, and a licence for the food outlet Professors Court.

Marbain allegedly then on-sold the rights for $1.2 million, $1 million of which was transferred to Hong Kong.

In February, Mr Ray was granted almost $5000 by Marbain's Mathew Keats, to cover an election debt.

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/09/1102182424671.html
 

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Tim56 said:
When the Howard gov't introduces voluntary student unionism, the game will be up for all student unions.
Before you run off with dogma before substance what are you going to replace it with? Most student unions pay and run alot of the facilities on campuses if they don't get the yearly funding from charging students the facilities can't exist.
 

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Before you run off with dogma before substance what are you going to replace it with? Most student unions pay and run alot of the facilities on campuses if they don't get the yearly funding from charging students the facilities can't exist.
Student unions are run for the benefit of those who run them. Typically, only the hardcore left can actually be bothered to vote, so they get in power, and use the funds of unions for their own political causes, unrelated to student welfare. What evidence to I have to support this? When food vouchers were given as an incentive to vote at Melbourne Uni, and about 30,000 people voted (rather then 2,000 this year), an essentially centrist coalition were elected. Other facilities could easily be provided by the Uni, and they could indeed profit from them, such as renting out fast food resteraunts, and then run use the profits for the benefit of all students, not just an elite politically active few, who use the funds of the student body for their own ends.

Secondly, freedom of association is a fundamental right, and why should anyone be compelled to join an organization they don't wish to?

If people want to have clubs, or have special 'queer lounges', they should pay they cost of it, not force other students to pay for something they don't even want.
 

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Qsaint said:
Before you run off with dogma before substance what are you going to replace it with? Most student unions pay and run alot of the facilities on campuses if they don't get the yearly funding from charging students the facilities can't exist.
When I was at uni the canteen lost a huge amount of money without anyone ever being charged though it would have had to be more than gross incompetence to have lost money of that magnitude.

Its not so much the money they take from students its the manner in which the money is spent and the management of facilities such as the gym, bar, canteen etc.

If student unionism was voluntary would all uni bars, canteens etc disappear? I doubt it.
 

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MGREG said:
You know it as well as I do.

Go back and see the cirucmstances of his leaving parliament.

Landeryou and Stalin! What a team!
I'm aware of the circumstances why he left Parliament.But he also had some personal matters about that time.
 
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