June 15 (Reuters) - Australia's corporate regulator on Wednesday fined a former unit of top lender Commonwealth Bank (CBA) A$1.7 million ($1.2 million) for charging fees from deceased superannuation members.
The unit, Avanteos Investments, was a part of wealth manager Colonial First State, in which CBA divested its majority stake in 2020 to private equity giant KKR KKR.N .
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said 499 deceased members with funds in Avanteos pension products were wrongly charged almost A$700,000 because the company failed to update its defective disclosure statements.
The regulator said this was the first instance of a criminal prosecution for a company failing to update its defective disclosure statements.
Avanteos came under scanner https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/cbas-former-unit-pleads-guilty-pension-fund-charges-regulator-2021-12-08 during an investigation into the "fees for no service" conduct as part of a broader Royal Commission into the country's financial sector in 2018.
The investment platform operator did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
($1 = 1.4461 Australian dollars)
News: CBA Ex-CBA unit fined $1.2 mln for charging fees from dead pensioners
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