A financial adviser will stand trial on 19 fraud charges involving the embezzlement of over $1.3 million of client and investor funds.
Corporate watchdog ASIC alleges that Mathew Leech created false documents as well as used his position as a company director to secure $51,450.
Leech was charged with four counts of theft and 13 counts of misappropriating $1.3 million, part of which included property.
He worked from the offices of T J Porker & Associates in Victoria.
Leech will appear in the County Court in Bendigo on May 9, 2007.
