Chris Koletti said his DJ brother Anthony turned his back on the family once he was seduced by the haughty millionaire businesswoman suspected of siphoning off her clients’ investments to fund a lavish lifestyle and holidays around the world.
“Anthony doesn’t want to talk to any of us, but if he wasn’t all right we’d have heard from him,” Chris said from his home in the St George area of Sydney.“She was always going to run, but she would never tell my brother where she’s hiding, have you met him? If she even thought he had half a chance of keeping a secret don’t you think would have told him she was going to take off?“She’ll come back, she can’t run forever, she’ll come back when she’s run out of money, or when she wants to see her son. “She’s got money, lots of money of friends who invested with her… it’ll run out.“She doesn‘t want anything to do with us, Anthony made the choice to go into that life, he doesn’t want to deal with us, that’s fine, he stopped talking to us… she’s stuck up, she had a life she wanted to lead… good luck to them.”“I met Melissa only once in the eight years they’ve been together, I didn’t like the attitude she gave us. They had their life, we had ours,” he added.“What do I think of her? What kind of woman leaves her child behind to go on the run because she’s too scared to do the time?” he said.
The Daily Telegraph revealed on Wednesday detectives widened the net in the search for Ms Caddick, amid a growing theory she fled to Queensland and disappeared the night officers raided her Sydney mansion on November 11 – and not the following morning at 5.30am.Police are working on the belief she is “very much still alive” and could be on the run interstate after failing to unearth a single clue to her whereabouts since she left her cliff top home 69 days ago.The day before corporate watchdog ASIC and Federal Police holding warrant searched her home declaring she was under investigation over how she managed her company, Maliver Pty Ltd, and handled investor money.It was believed she was operating without a licence.
More than $20 million of investors’ funds, predominantly savings of her rich friends, was deposited into Ms Caddick’s account between January 2018 and September 18, 2020, according to documents filed in the Federal Court.Bank records show she spent an astonishing amount on luxury clothes, limousines, travel, mortgage payments and protein shakes.Exhaustive searches of CCTV footage panning the exclusive Dover Heights street she lived have not turned up any conclusive leads.Senior officers are now querying the assumption Ms Caddick, 49, left her $7 million home about 5.30am on November 12, when her son told police he thought he heard the “click” of the front door when she left for a run.
“That click could have been anything, we cannot base an entire investigation on that, we are open to the theory she could have gone missing any time from the night the warrant was completed to any time after 5.30am the next day on Thursday, November 12,” a senior police source said.“It’s not that the family isn’t telling the truth but there is no evidence beyond the door closing that she went at 5.30am; no one witnessed her leave.“There has been no confirmed sighting of Melissa Caddick and have followed up a mountain of leads. We are investigating the possibility she is very much still alive,” he said.A source added: “It is not beyond the realms of possibility that she is in Queensland.”Officers are also examining her high-end cars and computers for clues. She has not delved into her bank accounts, or contacted family or friends since she vanished without her phone, keys or wallet.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said Ms Caddick’s perplexing disappearance remained a missing persons investigation.“There are two aspects to this … the NSW Police is leading a missing person investigation into her going missing,” he said.“The Australian Security Investment Commission is also running an investigation into potential frauds in relation to superannuation investments in the millions, perhaps the tens of millions of dollars.”Anyone with information about the disappearance is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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