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Australia's Vina forex criminal-cartel prosecution delayed, as Covid-19 wreaks schedule havoc

By James Panichi
  • 19 Mar 2020 18:42
  • 30 Mar 2020 21:11
The criminal prosecution of a Sydney-based money-exchange agency and five individuals charged with fixing the exchange rate between the Australian dollar and the Vietnamese dong has suffered a five-month delay, with a lower court in Melbourne announcing Sept. 7, 2020, as the new starting date.
Although the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court

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James Panichi

Senior Editor, Asia Pacific


James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the European operation of US political website Politico as an investigative reporter specializing in governance, transparency and lobbying.

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