Rod Petricevic the boss of the failed Bridgecorp Finance Company, claims he will not get a fair trial because he can't afford a lawyer, as he has no job or money. After his unsuccessful submission to have the charges dropped, he made another application for legal aid. His previous application for legal aid was rejected on the grounds that he has access to the family trust, which has substantial assets and reported to be in the millions. Yet he still expects the state to fund his defence.
After fleecing 14,500 investors, Mr Petricevic is trying to fleece the rest of us. This man needs to consider his options, like, sell some of the assets in the family trust, downsize or sell the family home, take out a mortgage or a loan, have a garage sale, or even get a job. He also should stop hiding behind the charade of being poverty stricken and destitute, while continuing to live the life of Riley, and the loss of $459 million of investor's money had nothing to do with him.
Without doubt some of the assets, which are conveniently stashed in the R M Petricevic Family Trust would have been derived from his accused criminal activities.
Brian Porter, Welcome Bay.