VIC Fraud crimes in Victoria

[DEBRA REID]

Is there a time limit for acting on a fraud crime?

 

[Tony Danos]

No time limit for the police to charge.

 

[DEBRA REID]

No time limit for the police to charge.

Hi again Tony Danos. I have a situation with family members who forged signatures to take control of a business back in the mid 1970's. Is this still a possibility to do anything about this?

 

[DEBRA REID]

So is this is the case, what should I do next for a family member who was fraudulently removed from a company he was a partner in by forging of signatures to sign the ownership of the company over to someone else?

 

[Tony Danos]

You would have to go to the police with the evidence however the age of the complaint is problematic.

 

[DEBRA REID]

Hi again Tony,
Why is it problematic?

 

[Tony Danos]

Proving the fraud so long after the offence.

 

[DEBRA REID]

Ok but if I think I know the solicitors who were doing the legal work at that time, would they still have kept the documents? It was a case of someone telling the solicitors to go ahead and prosecute or not. The person was my father and he chose not to prosecute at the time.

 

[Tony Danos]

Files must be kept for 7 years.

 

[DEBRA REID]

Do companies then dispose of old files then or archive them maybe?