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<\/p>\nThe case against an Australian Olympic swimmer accused of a multi-million-dollar business fraud has been dropped by Queensland prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Neil Brooks and his wife Linda were both charged in 2017 with one count of fraud.<\/p>\n
More than three years after the couple were committed to stand trial, on Wednesday their charges were withdrawn in the Brisbane District Court.<\/p>\n
Mr and Mrs Brooks, who have been on bail and allowed to live overseas, were not present when a judge formally discharged them.<\/p>\n
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Neil Brooks with his wife Linda Brooks, also known as Elle Brooks. (Facebook)<\/p>\n
The couple faced a committal hearing in 2022, where the court heard details about the alleged offending, which related to a sports merchandise business they had started.<\/p>\n
It was alleged in 2008, when they were living on the Gold Coast, they made dishonest representations about the company’s success, in order to induce two investors to purchase a 50 per cent stake.<\/p>\n
It was alleged the investors agreed to pay $2 million, made up of a $1.65 million purchase price, with the remainder to be put toward working capital for the business.<\/p>\n
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It was alleged in 2008 Mr and Mrs Brooks made dishonest representations about their sports merchandise company’s success. (ABC News: Talissa Siganto)<\/p>\n
At the time, Mr Books said he was “really confident” the charges would not hold up at trial.<\/p>\n
“Once people see the evidence and the facts that are going to be rolled out … I’ll be clear of all these charges,” he said in 2022.<\/p>\n
“We know what happened, we were there.”<\/p>\n
Mr Brooks anchored the Australian medley relay which won gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.<\/p>\n
He was also a member of the “Mean Machine” quartet at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, also winning gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The case against an Australian Olympic swimmer accused of a multi-million-dollar business fraud has been dropped by Queensland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,16742,1926,329045,213725,329047,329048,29087,329046,94,701,85],"class_list":["post-682294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-dropped","tag-former-olympic-swimmer","tag-fraud-charges","tag-linda-brooks","tag-mean-machine","tag-moscow-olympics","tag-neil-brooks","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}