{"id":32581,"date":"2012-10-03T09:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32581"},"modified":"2012-10-03T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:33:45","slug":"perrin-charged-with-13-5-million-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32581","title":{"rendered":"Perrin Charged With $13.5 Million Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> CEO <strong>Matthew Perrin<\/strong> is now being charged with &#8220;defrauding the Commonwealth Bank of $13.5 million,&#8221; according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/nation\/former-billabong-boss-matthew-perrin-charged\/story-e6frg6nf-1226486892519\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The charges relate to Mr Perrin allegedly forging the signature of his former wife, Nicole Bricknell, on documents where he used the value of a house he and his then wife owned jointly at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast to obtain a loan of $13.5m from the Commonwealth Bank in 2008. . . Mr Perrin, 40, filed for bankruptcy in March 2009 with debts of $28.2m to 20 unsecured creditors, but he had previously spent four years on the BRW Rich List with his wife, recording a peak value of $151m in 2002 when he was 30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perrin is out on bail, however, he has apparently had his passport confiscated. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/nation\/former-billabong-boss-matthew-perrin-charged\/story-e6frg6nf-1226486892519\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Billabong CEO Matthew Perrin is now being charged with &#8220;defrauding the Commonwealth Bank of $13.5 million,&#8221; according to a story in The Australian. The charges relate to Mr Perrin allegedly forging the signature of his former wife, Nicole Bricknell, on documents where he used the value of a house he and his then wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32583,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32581\/revisions\/32583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}