Ex-AFL Umpire Jailed for Contempt of Court
VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, JUL 30 – Troy Pannell breached court orders by selling assets during an $8.7 million fraud probe, receiving an 11-week jail term with 54 days already served, Justice Andrew Watson ruled.
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Pannell jailed for contempt
A former AFL umpire has been jailed for contempt after breaching an asset freeze and disobeying court orders to lay out his worth. Troy Pannell was handed an 11-week maximum prison term for multiple contempt-of-court offences after he flouted a court order to disclose all of his assets and continued to dispose of assets despite being forbidden to do so. The former umpire had been working in the shipping industry, alongside his 16-year referee ca…
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