Family of Sydney businesswoman who mysteriously disappeared owing investors millions fear her lavish jewellery collection including a $250,000 necklace will 'diminish' in value if police don't store it properly
The family of missing businesswoman Melissa Caddick are concerned her million-dollar jewellery collection will 'diminish' in value if police don't look after it.
The 49-year-old was last seen at her Dover Heights home in Sydney's east on November 12, days after Australian Federal Police raided the property as part of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation.
The mission millionaire's husband Anthony Koletti, and brother, Adam Grimley, fear her valuables are not being stored properly after being seized by authorities as part of their investigations into allegations of fraud.
According to an affidavit by Ms Caddick's Brisbane lawyer Jennifer Williamson, the pair want to ensure the jewellery is cared for 'so that their value is not diminished while they are held by ASIC/the AFP'.
Melissa Caddick went missing two days following a raid on her home as part of an Australian Securities and Investment Commission investigation. Above, she is seen at a black tie event with husband Anthony Koletti and her necklace which is purportedly valued at $250,000
'Inspired by the night sky': Ms Caddick's necklace is so fancy it was written up in The Australian newspaper's Executive Living section. It features an 83 carat Australian black sapphire - described by Canturi as 'the most rare - 'cubism' set diamonds and is created in 18 carat white gold
A former friend of Ms Caddick said a necklace custom-made by internationally renowned jeweller Stefano Canturi was her pride and joy.
Named Stella, the necklace featured an extraordinary 83 carat Australian black sapphire and 'cubism-set' diamonds in 18 carat white gold.
'She had this at the property in her safe,' the source said. 'She bought it as an investment. She said, many a time, it was $250,000.'
The necklace is an example of Ms Caddick's stunning wealth which includes a $6.2 million cliffside mansion, a $300,000 supercar, a private chef to cook organic meals for her family and holidays in Aspen's skifields for a month each year.
Ms Caddick was close friends with the prestigious Castlereagh St, Sydney jeweller Mr Canturi, whose wife confirmed Ms Caddick had the pricey piece especially crafted for herself.
'The necklace, Stella, was custom made for Melissa in a category called High Jewelry,' Patricia Canturi said.
'High jewelry' commands prices starting at $100,000 and going up from up there, Ms Canturi said.
Mr Canturi has an international reputation and his A-list clients include Nicole Kidman and Oprah Winfrey.
Ms Caddick, on left wearing her pricey necklace at an Audi gala, was a long term client of internationally acclaimed jewellery designer Stefano Canturi
At 83 carat, Ms Caddick's feature stone dwarfs even Kate Middleton's sapphire engagement ring, which features a single 12 carat blue rock.
A profile of Ms Caddick's jewellery piece by The Australian newspaper's Executive Living section described its centre stone as 'one of the biggest' black sapphires there is.
The cloud over Ms Caddick has unsettled staff at the jewellery salon. 'This is such an unusual situation for all of us,' Ms Canturi said.
This latest example of Ms Caddick's high-flying status comes as ASIC probes the sources of her income and her sudden disappearance continues to baffle police.
The black sapphire centrepiece of her necklace dwarfed Kate Middleton's blue sapphire engagement ring
Ms Caddick had been under investigation by the corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, for at least three months before her sudden disappearance on November 12.
ASIC was probing whether her company Maliver Pty Ltd had misused millions from investors.
They were largely friends and associates, and are believed to include a syndicate of doctors.
ASIC was also investigating if she had wrongly been using another company's financial adviser licence, her own having long since expired.
One victim allegedly invested $5 million with Ms Caddick while another who lost a fortune with her company reportedly 'dry-retched' when she found out the businesswoman was missing.
The pressure was on Ms Caddick before she disappeared. Two days before she went missing, ASIC secured a Federal Court order against her and her company.
She was banned from travelling overseas and her assets were frozen. Ms Caddick's home was raided by the Australian Federal Police that same day.
Ms Caddick and her husband Anthony Koletti would regularly jet off to Aspen, Colorado, where they stayed in a five-star residence at luxury resort, The Little Nell
Mr Koletti zooms about town in an Audi R8 which retails for about $300,000 and goes from 0 to 100km/h in three seconds. He's not suggested to be involved in Ms Caddick's disappearance or have knowledge of her possible financial misconduct
Detectives were told Ms Caddick was believed to have left the house for her morning jog about 5.30am on Thursday, November 12. Husband Anthony Koletti said it was unusual she let without her phone.
She was reported missing 24 hours later after she did not return.
Police are now asking anyone with dashcam footage from 6.30pm on November 11 to 8.30am on November 12 to come forward.
Investigators are following several lines of inquiry and haven't ruled out the possibility Ms Caddick may have absconded.
Daily Mail Australia has also obtained a share portfolio statement the Sydney financial adviser allegedly sent to a client to mark the end of the 2014-15 financial year.
The statement purported to show the extraordinary profit that Ms Caddick's wealth management company, Maliver Pty Ltd, had earned for the client.
The apparent forgery claimed an investor had made a stunning 257 per cent return - or $84,961 - on an original $33,000 investment in Macquarie Bank stocks.
But it also allegedly contained the seeds of Ms Caddick's business unraveling when CommSec delivered the stunning news to the investor that it was all a fake.
Missing woman Melissa Caddick, wearing an 83 carat black sapphire necklace, is pictured with her husband Anthony Koletti during her 49th birthday in April this year. It's not suggested her husband was involved with the matters under investigation by ASIC
This is the forged CommSec share trading document an investor claims Melissa Caddick sent to them, showing that they had made a 257 per cent return on Macquarie Bank holdings
'We called CommSec and they confirmed it was not a real account number ... they said the documents are fake,' the investor told Daily Mail Australia.
'I said, "they can't be, as it has your logo on top" ... She had copied and pasted the lot.'
Daily Mail Australia has independently established the document is not genuine. CommSec doesn't even produce a document called a 'portfolio statement'.
The words 'FY2014-2015' aren't written to the bank's typical style and the disclaimer down the bottom is wrong. (However, Macquarie stocks have enjoyed a meteoric rise, the price almost tripling since 2013.)
The investor said Ms Caddick failed to give them satisfactory answers when they confronted her about the alleged CommSec account. 'This is how the whole thing started with ASIC.'