{"id":14767,"date":"2018-10-28T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=14767"},"modified":"2018-10-28T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:23:34","slug":"prestige-property-agent-charged-with-3-6-million-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/prestige-property-agent-charged-with-3-6-million-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Prestige property agent charged with $3.6 million fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHOTO:\u00a0Nicolette van Wijngaarden of Unique Estates faces 15 fraud charges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A real estate agent specialising in luxury properties with high-profile owners, including fashion designer Collette Dinnigan, has been charged with 15 fraud offences after she allegedly misused $3.69 million which was placed into her agency&#8217;s trust account by various clients over the course of two years.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolette van Wijngaarden, 44, is the director of Unique Estates, a boutique real estate agency now under liquidation which specialised in selling multi-million dollar properties in NSW, Victoria and Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE VIA SMH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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