Consumer Affairs Victoria

An unlicensed motor car trader has been convicted and fined $8000 after advertising 26 different cars for sale online on 183 occasions between 9 June 2011 and 31 May 2012.

A 47-year-old Dandenong North man has been fined $1500 by Dandenong Magistrates’ Court after being found guilty of odometer tampering.

Frankston Magistrates’ Court has convicted and fined Ewing Glenn Gallaher $1000 for working in a customer service capacity at a motor car trader, while a prohibited person.

A business which accepted payments for the supply of mobile phones and cameras ordered online has been convicted and fined $1000, and its director has given an undertaking to repay more than $10,000 compensation, after the business committed 14 breaches of the Fair Trading Act 1999.

A Moorabbin importer and wholesaler who supplied unsafe children’s toys must recall the products, give customers a full refund and pay to have the toys destroyed.

Consumer Affairs Victoria has succeeded in having the director of two building companies disqualified from managing a corporation until 2017.

Melbourne Magistrates Court has found that a rooming house operator and its sole director breached Victoria’s residential tenancy laws.

An unlicensed motor car trader has been fined $3500 after offering to sell 17 cars in Dandenong South.

A man has been fined $3000 for odometer tampering, by substituting an instrument panel on a Toyota Hilux displaying a reading reduced by about 139,000km.

Gerardo Aquino, an estate agent's representative who used part of a clients’ home deposit to pay debts, was disqualified for more than a year.

Stuart Ritchie Mitchell, of Rye, who took payment for products he failed to supply has been convicted and fined by the Melbourne Magistrates Court.

Springvale agent’s representative Michael Minh Le was fined and reprimanded after he and his wife bought a property that his employer was selling -without telling the client, his employer or authorities.

A Gladstone Park man has pleaded guilty to unlicensed motor car trading.

The Melbourne Magistrates' Court declared that both motor car trader Frankston Car City Pty Ltd and its sole director, Liron Serbi, engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct and unlicensed motor car trading.

Melbourne Magistrates’ Court has restrained Champion Caravans and its operator, Antonios ‘Tony’ Giannakos, from accepting deposits for the supply or manufacture of caravans or any other payments for the supply of caravans, or related goods, prior to their actual delivery to the purchaser.

South Melbourne licensed motor car trader Clay Young Pty Ltd, trading as Melbourne Vehicle Brokers, has been fined $15,000 by the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court for selling three cars with money owing on them.

Melbourne Magistrates Court has restrained building contractor FNP Pty Ltd and its director, Grigoriy Trunov, from entering into major domestic building contracts until 1 January 2016.

Melbourne Magistrates’ Court has granted an interim injunction restraining Mark William Whittingham and his business, Connection Blue Pty Ltd.

A Reservoir real estate agent who failed to submit trust account records to Consumer Affairs Victoria has been suspended for a year, reprimanded and fined $1500.

Refrigeration installer Robert Turner, 39, of Pakenham, who took deposits from two businesses but failed to do the work, convicted and fined.

Michael Delosa - Court action

Janaka Wasantha Kumara Herath Alwis - Court action

Ewing Glenn Gallaher - Court action

Bluefly Mobile, Gadget Price Pty Ltd and James Curtis Alexander- Court action

HQ Pacific Pty Ltd and Jia Hao Huang - Court action

Architeck Homes Pty Ltd Unibase Homes Pty Ltd and Mehmet Mehmet - Court action

Houseshare Vic Pty Ltd and Vasilios Panagiotopoulos - Court action

Lance Edsall - Court action

Frank Spagnolo - Court action

Gerardo Aquino - Court action

Stuart Ritchie Mitchell - Court action

Michael Minh Le - Court action

Hans Van Dyk - Court action

Frankston Car City Pty Ltd and Liron Serbi - Court action

Champion Caravans and Tony Giannakos - Court action

Clay Young Pty Ltd - Court action

FNP Pty Ltd and Grigoriy Trunov - Court action

Mark William Whittingham and Connection Blue Pty Ltd - Court action

Robert James Marshall - Court action

Robert Turner - Court action