Prestige property agent charged with $3.6 million fraud

PHOTO: Nicolette van Wijngaarden of Unique Estates faces 15 fraud charges.

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’s trust account by various clients over the course of two years.

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.

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