Former Seven executive John Fitzgerald arrested for alleged $8m fraud

July 24, 2019 1:03

Seven’s former commercial director of programming, John Fitzgerald, has been arrested by NSW Police.

Detectives involved in the case said it was part of an investigation into multi-million-dollar fraud against the network totalling more than $8m.

In March 2017, detectives from the State Crime Command’s Financial Crimes Squad established Strike Force Hamment to investigate the alleged misappropriation of funds.

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Vivienne Kelly

Vivienne Kelly was previously the editor of Mumbrella from 2016 to August 2020.

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2 COMMENTS

tony 24 Jul 19

Mumbrella not a good idea to be accepting comments on a story that has a court case pending.

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@Tony 25 Jul 19

The NSW Police Facebook post is accepting comments so if it is ok for them I think Mumbrella is fine to do it too

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