Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Tuesday, July 1.
Making headlines today – aside from it being the new financial year – is news from our courts, where a 65-year-old Perth businessman has been convicted of a raft of money laundering charges, bringing to an end a massive police investigation which also culminated in the imprisonment of six West Australian bikies who were the man’s clients.
Geoff Puttick, 65, pleaded not guilty to 29 charges of engaging in transactions that involved money or property that was the proceeds of an offence in Perth District Court.
Shaun Collard, Geoff Puttick and John Fury were all involved in a sophisticated money laundering scheme.Credit: Composite: Rebecca Peppiatt/9 News Perth
Last month he was found guilty of all but one count after a six-week trial.
The court was told Puttick was the go-to money launderer for a bunch of bikies, churning more than $3 million of dirty cash over a five-year period from his fake Burswood-based company.
His clients included Coffin Cheaters John Fury, Warren Goedhart, Todd Lange and Shaun Collard, as well as Giovanni Bova and Riley Hutchinson.
Rebecca Peppiatt has the full story. You can read it here.
Meanwhile, hungry for news from our city’s restaurant scene? You’ll love this exclusive from Max Veenhuyzen then.
Roast pork marinated in red tofu, son-in-law egg sandwiches, hibachi-grilled lamb meatballs: welcome to Bac Pham’s vision of Vietnamese food.
Pham may already be familiar to diners at the State Buildings’ bustling Petition Kitchen, or for his work with the Special Delivery crew at Doubleview Bowling Club.
Now, he’s opening his own 25-seat eatery in Leederville serving Vietnamese food, as viewed through the lens and life story of a Vietnamese-born, Australian-raised latecomer to the cooking game.
You can read all about this latest venture here.
Thank you for joining us this morning, stay tuned as we bring you news you need to know.
