Astonishing footage emerges of a dazed Melissa Caddick showing off wads of cash, $100,000 necklaces and priceless diamonds… the last time she would EVER see them
- AFP video shows tense scenes as Melissa Caddick is questioned in her office
- Investigators focus on her jewelry collection asking her to estimate values
- Video shows what happened when authorities raided her Dover Heights home
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Astonishing footage has emerged of a dazed Melissa Caddick being questioned over $2million worth of jewellery during a raid on her house just prior to her disappearance.
The video, shown at the inquest into her disappearance, shows the notorious fraudster Caddick under intense pressure as investigators hone in on her designer jewellery collection on November 11, 2020.
Caddick, now Australia’s most notorious fraudster, vanished the next day.
The video was released as part of the ongoing inquest and comes as court-appointed receivers attempt to claw back more than $23 million owed to her former clients.
Astonishing footage has emerged of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick being questioned by investigators over her $2million worth of jewellery during the police raid hours before she went missing
The video, filmed by the Australian Federal Police, shows Caddick under intense pressure as investigators focus on her designer jewellery collection before they seized her valuables (Pictured, one of Caddick’s necklaces, worth up to $100,000)
The video was released as part of the ongoing court case in which court-appointed receivers attempt to claw back more than $23 million owed to her former clients (Pictured, one of Caddick’s Centauri necklaces, worth up to $100,000)
Caddick lived a luxury lifestyle before her world came crashing down with the raid by the AFP and ASIC at her Dover Heights home.
She wore designer clothes and ultra expensive bling, collected fine art and took lavish overseas skiing holidays with husband Anthony Koletti.
The AFP video shows the tense atmosphere inside the eastern suburbs during the life-changing raid, which began with a 6.30am door knock.
‘Ms Caddick are there any particularly high value items – just in terms of our safe storage?’ an investigator asks her.
‘We intend to seize the majority of what you’ve just been taken through.’
ASIC and AFP officers show off Caddick’s extraordinary jewellery collection in the video which included many designer labels
Caddick’s husband Anthony Koletti estimated the jewellery alone was worth over $2million
‘I’d say they’re all high value,’ she eventually responds.
‘What would you consider high value?’ he asks.
‘Well the necklaces are $80,000 to $100,000.’
She was believed to be referring to two oversized Stefano Canturi necklaces that she kept locked in a safe.
‘Is there anything more expensive than those?’ he asks.
She quickly checks over the jewellery laid out before replying ‘no’.
Investigators are seen flicking through wads of foreign cash in Caddick’s house
Over a 14 hour period a large team of investigators wearing protective gloves questioned Caddick as they meticulously catalogued, bagged, labelled and removed all items of value from the home
AFP and ASIC investigators opened her two household safes, both containing expensive jewellery
Over a 14 hour period a large team of investigators wearing protective gloves questioned Caddick as they meticulously catalogued, bagged, labelled and removed all items of value from the home.
They seized her jewellery and fine art collection, designer clothing and other possessions, filling dozens of boxes and wrapping many items in plastic for removal.
They also found thousands of dollars in foreign currency, which shown being counted in the clip.
Koletti claimed in a 7News Spotlight interview that Caddick was ‘surrounded and trapped’ in her office by ASIC and AFP investigators who wouldn’t allow him inside.
Mr Koletti said Caddick loved jewellery but claimed she loved people more
The jewellery alone is worth more than $2million, according to Mr Koletti.
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Mr Koletti said everything the investigators took was ‘all sentimental and all high value’.
He said she loved her jewellery but claimed ‘she loved people more’.
Caddick is believed to have defrauded 72 clients, many of them family members and close friends, out of at least $23million in a long-running and carefully hidden Ponzi scheme.
Receivers plan to auction before Christmas as they try to recoup millions for the out-of-pocket investors.
The clip shows several ASIC and AFP staff carrying them down the stairs and out of the house after dark to complete Caddick’s humiliation.
Koletti claimed he didn’t ask her any questions after the investigators left and she went straight to sleep.
Caddick (pictured centre) wore designer clothes and ultra expensive bling, collected fine art and took lavish overseas skiing holidays with husband Anthony Koletti (pictured right)
Caddick’s home, which she bought for $6.2million and is now believed to be worth up to $15million, is expected to be sold to help repay defrauded investors
She vanished the next morning, with Koletti later telling authorties he believed she had gone out for her regular run.
She has never been seen since.
Incredibly her severed foot was found washed up in an Asics running show three months later on a New South Wales beach, 400km south of her eastern suburbs Sydney home.
Caddick’s home, which she bought for $6.2million and is now believed to be worth up to $15million, is expected to be sold to help repay defrauded investors.
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