AUSTRALIAN TRUE CRIME –
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- 246 p., 16 p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 20 cm. #250525Friedrich became executive director of NSCA in 1982 and began to transform it into a national search and rescue organisation. He built up the company with loans from 27 banks that agreed to lend millions of dollars to NSCA with little more surety than Friedrich’s word. McGregor-Lowndes attributes this lack of probity to the halo effect of NSCA and Friedrich himself.[4] In 1988, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) “in recognition of service to the community, particularly in the area of industrial safety and search and rescue services”.[5]Following the financial collapse of NSCA in 1989, Friedrich went into hiding.[4] After a nationwide and international manhunt, involving all Australian police forces and Interpol, he was arrested in Perth on 6 April 1989. He was initially charged with one count of obtaining financial advantage by deception. On 1 November, he was charged on a further 91 counts of obtaining property by deception.
In subsequent investigations, it was discovered that Friedrich was not an Australian citizen, did not possess any valid birth certificate, and did not appear on any electoral roll. This caused considerable embarrassment to the Department of Defence, which had given him a security clearance and almost unlimited access to Royal Australian Air Force bases.[3]
- On 27 July 1991, Friedrich was found dead in a muddy field on his farm near Sale, Victoria, with a single gunshot wound to the head. His death was ruled to be suicide.
- 246 p., 16 p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 20 cm. #250525Friedrich became executive director of NSCA in 1982 and began to transform it into a national search and rescue organisation. He built up the company with loans from 27 banks that agreed to lend millions of dollars to NSCA with little more surety than Friedrich’s word. McGregor-Lowndes attributes this lack of probity to the halo effect of NSCA and Friedrich himself.[4] In 1988, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) “in recognition of service to the community, particularly in the area of industrial safety and search and rescue services”.[5]Following the financial collapse of NSCA in 1989, Friedrich went into hiding.[4] After a nationwide and international manhunt, involving all Australian police forces and Interpol, he was arrested in Perth on 6 April 1989. He was initially charged with one count of obtaining financial advantage by deception. On 1 November, he was charged on a further 91 counts of obtaining property by deception.