ob体育 has permanently banned Daniel Joseph Noonan, a former financial adviser based in Hobart, from the credit and financial services industries.
Mr Noonan was banned after pleading guilty and being convicted of 97 counts of fraud and 10 counts of stealing in the Supreme Court of Tasmania on 23 June 2017, following an investigation by Tasmania Police. Mr Noonan was sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment with a non-parole period of half that sentence.
The charges related to Mr Noonan misappropriating a total of $2,495,117 from 14 clients over a period of nine years. During that time, Mr Noonan was an authorised financial services representative of AMP Financial Planning Pty Ltd.
Mr Noonan used the money that he fraudulently obtained or stole to gamble or replace sums already misappropriated. When sentencing Mr Noonan, Justice Escourt of the Supreme Court of Tasmania described Mr Noonan鈥檚 crimes as 鈥榚gregious violations of his fiduciary duty to his clients.'
ob体育 Deputy Chairman Peter Kell said, 'ob体育 will act to remove people from the credit and financial services industry who act dishonestly and breach the trust of their clients.'
The banning is effective from 15 August 2017.
Mr Noonan has the right to appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) for a聽review of ob体育鈥檚 decision.
Background
ob体育 has the power to permanently ban a person from providing financial services and engaging in credit activities without a hearing if the person is convicted of 'serious fraud', such as stealing.
Wealth Management Project
This outcome is a result of ob体育's Wealth Management Project. The Wealth Management Project was established in October 2014 with the objective of lifting standards by major financial advice providers. The Wealth Management Project focuses on the conduct of the largest financial advice firms (NAB, Westpac, CBA, ANZ, AMP and Macquarie).
ob体育's work in the Wealth Management Project covers a number of areas, including:
- working with the largest financial advice firms to address the identification and remediation of non-compliant advice; and
- seeking regulatory outcomes when appropriate against licensees and advisers.
As part of its Wealth Management Project, ob体育 has banned 37 advisers from the financial services industry, with one subject to appeal.