{"id":363067,"date":"2022-01-03T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T09:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=363067"},"modified":"2022-01-03T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T09:14:47","slug":"conman-peter-foster-has-been-arrested-six-months-after-he-allegedly-skipped-court-on-fraud-related-chargesnotorious-australian-conman-peter-foster-has-been-arrested-by-police-some-six-months-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=363067","title":{"rendered":"Conman Peter Foster has been arrested six months after he allegedly skipped court on fraud-related charges\n\n\nNotorious Australian conman Peter Foster has been arrested by police some six months after he allegedly skipped court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mol-img-group floatRHS\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-2dad0e1e7a5f78c3\" height=\"397\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Conman Peter Foster has been arrested six months after he allegedly skipped court on fraud-related charges\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Conman Peter Foster has been arrested six months after he allegedly skipped court on fraud-related charges<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Notorious Australian conman Peter Foster has been arrested by police some six months after he allegedly skipped court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In a statement, the Australian Federal Police said Foster, 59,  \uac00\uc0c1\ud654\ud3d0 was arrested near the Victorian town of Gisborne in the state&#8217;s Macedon Ranges after a six month search.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Foster failed to appear in a Sydney court on fraud-related charges in May and an electronic tracker stopped sending a signal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">His lawyer at the time admitted he had no idea where the 58-year-old was.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The case against Foster involves allegations he conned $1.7million in Bitcoin out of a retired pilot in Hong Kong as part of a sports betting scam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Foster &#8211; using the alias\u00a0Bill Dawson &#8211; allegedly promised a series of investors including pilot\u00a0Konstantinos &#8216;Dino&#8217; Stylianopoulosas &#8216;guaranteed returns&#8217; on their money by having a mathematician predict the outcome of sports matches.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-9ac17ad7353265f1\" height=\"395\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Peter Foster, a notorious conman, has been arrested six months after he allegedly skipped court while facing fraud-related charges (pictured during his arrest in August last year)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Peter Foster, a notorious conman, has been arrested six months after he allegedly skipped court while facing fraud-related charges (pictured during his arrest in August last year)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Prosecutors say\u00a0Stylianopoulosas transferred Foster $2million in cryptocurrency over the course of nine months between 2019 and 2020, in amounts ranging from $126,000 to $890,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But investors say their money &#8216;evaporated&#8217; after they invested in the firm, called Sports Predictions, and prosecutors allege that no bets were ever placed and the money was instead diverted to Foster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Police were tipped off about the alleged con after Stylianopoulosas contacted a team of investigators at IFW Global, who then worked with officers to track Foster down.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div data-track-module=\"am-related_carousel^related_carousel\" data-track-selector=\".rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])\" data-dm-rotator-rotate=\"false\" data-track-pos=\"static\" data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=\"\" data-dm-rotator-auto-init=\"\" id=\"p-22\" class=\"related-carousel with-fb-or-tw news half\" data-dm-rotator-active-class=\"active\" data-dm-rotator-page-count=\"1.0\" data-dm-social-article-auto-init=\"\" data-dm-rotator-page-size=\"1\">\n<div class=\"rotator bdrcc\">\n<div class=\"rotator-title\">\n<h2>RELATED ARTICLES<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"rotator-pages link-xocc\">\n<li class=\"rotator-prev\"><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li class=\"rotator-next\"><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox\">\n<li>   <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><u><b><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb\"><\/b><\/u><\/p>\n<p><h2>Share this article<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"share\"><span class=\"wai\">Share<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He was eventually tracked down to far north Queensland where he was dramatically arrested in August last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Footage of the arrest, taken by IFW Global, showed two officers dressed as joggers running towards Foster on the beach before tackling him to the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The case was sent to NSW, because that is where the cryptocurrency exchange used for the transactions was based.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-91396809ed2da62b\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Foster outside court on April 22. The case against him involves allegations he conned $1.7million in Bitcoin out of a retired pilot in Hong Kong as part of a sports betting scam\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Foster outside court on April 22.The case against him involves allegations he conned $1.7million in Bitcoin out of a retired pilot in Hong Kong as part of a sports betting scam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Foster was released on bail at that hearing but placed under effective house arrest and fitted with an electronic tag to return to court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That hearing took place on May 20, with Foster&#8217;s lawyer\u00a0Justin Lewis telling the court the pair had met in his office in Sydney that day at 11.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mr Lewis said Foster had assured him that he would turn up, but by 2pm he was nowhere to be seen and couldn&#8217;t be contacted because his bail conditions prohibit him from carrying a phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Foster rose to infamy in 2002 when he sparked &#8216;Cheriegate&#8217; after it emerged he had helped then-UK Prime Minister Tony Blair&#8217;s wife buy two discounted houses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-128c9faccd243825\" height=\"389\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The Australian Federal Police said Foster, 59, was arrested near the Victorian town of Gisborne in the state's Macedon Ranges after a six month search\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The Australian Federal Police said Foster,  \uac00\uc0c1\ud654\ud3d0 59, was arrested near the Victorian town of Gisborne in the state&#8217;s Macedon Ranges after a six month search<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cherie initially denied Foster -already an established fraudster who had served jail time in the UK &#8211; was involved in the deal, but after the Daily Mail exposed emails between the pair she was forced to make an apology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This year does not mark the first time Foster has vanished while in trouble with the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">During the 1980s, while marketing a brand of tea that he claimed was an &#8216;ancient Chinese weight loss secret&#8217;, he hopped from Australia, to the UK and then to the US &#8211; setting up a string of companies to market the tea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-a4172d159690f04e\" height=\"439\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Foster pictured outside court in September 2019. He was dramatically arrested in August last year after being tracked down to a beach in far north Queensland\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Foster pictured outside court in September 2019.He was dramatically arrested in August last year after being tracked down to a beach in far north Queensland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-87b47d5ec2cd40be\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Peter Foster is pictured leaving the Downing Centre District Court, in Sydney in April.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Peter Foster is pictured leaving the Downing Centre District Court, in Sydney in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-47e0b4a721eec5b3\" height=\"1129\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Foster outside a Gold Coast court in 2012. He was arrested for the first time in 1983 for a fake \u00a340,000 insurance claim over a cancelled boxing match\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Foster outside a Gold Coast court in 2012.He was arrested for the first time at the age of 20 for a fake \u00a340,000 insurance claim over a cancelled boxing match<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In fact, the tea was ordinary black tea, but each time a firm was placed under investigation, Foster moved country and set up again. He was eventually jailed over the scam in the US.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group floatRHS\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-bf12becfa362a208\" height=\"492\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Foster had already served jail time for fraud when he helped Cherie Blair, the wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, buy two cut-price homes in 2002\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Foster had already served jail time for fraud when he helped Cherie Blair, the wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, buy two cut-price homes in 2002<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Returning to Britain in the 1990s, he was jailed again &#8211; this time for plugging &#8216;thigh reduction cream&#8217; &#8211; but absconded while on day release and went back to Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He was arrested on a British warrant in Australia, absconded again, and  \uac00\uc0c1\ud654\ud3d0 was then re-arrested and spent more time in jail in both countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After spending some time in Fiji in 2001,  <a href=\"https:\/\/justpaste.it\/best-crypto-exchange-platform\">\uac00\uc0c1\ud654\ud3d0<\/a> he returned to Britain in 2002 where he began dating Carole Caplin, who was then Cherie Blair&#8217;s style guru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It was through Carole that Foster was introduced to Cherie, and helped the Prime Minister&#8217;s wife purchase two properties in Bristol at discounted rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When the deal was exposed, Cherie initially denied Foster was involved, until the Daily Mail printed email conversations between the pair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In them, Cherie called Foster &#8216;a star&#8217; and told him &#8216;we&#8217;re on the same wavelength.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The revelation prompted a tearful public apology from Cherie, who denied knowing about Foster&#8217;s criminal past and blamed her &#8216;mistake&#8217; on &#8216;trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime ministerial consort at home and abroad..&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Some of the balls get dropped &#8211; there just aren&#8217;t enough hours in the day,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;div class=&quot;art-ins mol-factbox news&quot; data-version=&quot;2&quot; id=&quot;mol-2c06b6d0-5715-11ec-ad0f-4336728eeba6&quot; website Foster is arrested in remote bushland SIX MONTHS after vanishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conman Peter Foster has been arrested six months after he allegedly skipped court on f\u2026","protected":false},"author":111393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/111393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363068,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363067\/revisions\/363068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}