"Can we send our posts to the enquiry!?"
It’s a great idea, Wooduk! Of cause we all can make submissions to the Parliamentary Inquiry. Just writing a few pages will do and you can submit it even electronically.
Please just visit the following APH website to see what are going on.
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/corporations_ctte/MIS/index.htm
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/corporations_ctte/MIS/submissions.htm
Just as Senator Cash said in the report, "Not a lot of individual investors have made submissions, but there have been many from interest groups" - so the investors and share/unit-holders voices are largely muted. I think this would result in unfavoured conclusions against investors and share/unit-holders at the end of the Inquiry. (Inquiry will conclude soon in one or 2 months)
Guys, so it's time for us to take actions now!!!
I think what we need is to push the following points in the submissions to the Inquiry.
1) The MIS business is a biggest financial fraud in Australian history; it is a (kind of) Ponzi scheme (of Australian style of cause!);
2) ATO/ASIC tax rulings were wrong and should be abandoned immediately;
3) ASIC is incompetent in doing its watchdog jobs;
4) Present GTP and TIM self-appointed receivers/liquidators/administrators should be removed and replaced by Government appointed RI;
5) Secured and unsecured creditors and shareholders should be ranked equally;
6) The recourse clauses in investor loans should be declared null and void; Any recourse should be limited to the underline MIS scheme only;
7) Losses of MIS investors should be compensated/claimed back from their commission-taking financial advisors/planners; Some of them had taken millions of dollars in commissions, and some (or most?) of them were insured against such mistakes of theirs;
8) The major offenders of the fraud should be brought to justice immediately;
9) ... etc. Any more suggestions?
So let’s act now - to voice our views in the Inquiry ... or ... it will be too late!
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