While newcomer Daniel Webb seems like a lovely family orientated Aussie bloke, he is also implicated in one of the biggest investigations in the history of the Crime and Corruption Commission.
Along with six other people, including former police detective Mick Featherstone and Daniel’s acquaintance Robert Doueihi, Daniel was charged with aggravated fraud in a case code-named Lima Violin II.
In initial proceedings in the Brisbane Magistrates Court back in 2016, it was alleged that the fraud was worth between $15 – 20 million and that there were around 600 victims.
Police allege that in 2014, Daniel, 35, coerced people into becoming ‘puppet directors’ of 12 scam companies.
Ordinary Australians were allegedly conned out of their hard-earned cash by being asked to invest between $500 – $1000 into betting and investment software, and then the companies were closed.
The dad of one is due back in court on Friday in a trial that’s scheduled to last four weeks.
“I can’t speak about that at the moment because it’s going through the courts,” Daniel told New Idea.
Unfortunately, the crime that he is caught up with is not a small thing. “Cold-call investment fraud, also known as “boiler room” fraud, is a type of organised crime in which a group of criminals set up complex business structures which appear legitimate in order to defraud people by getting them to invest in business opportunities and companies,” the CCC explained in their annual report to Parliament in 2016.
Despite the case going through the courts, the Gold Coast lad is getting on with his life as best he can, going on the show and trying to build opportunities for he and his son.
“I’m open to being famous one day, why not! Who wouldn’t be!,” he told New Idea. But one thing he isn’t open to is online dating. “I don’t believe in it for myself, online dating. I wouldn’t do it, no never!”
Channel Nine and production company Endemol Shine declined to comment.
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