The many (more) signatures of Matthew Mason

During the Liquidators examination, Matthew Mason gave evidence that he had also not consented to being a director of a company called “Training Events” – a company that was originally registered in 2001 under the name “Turning Point Debt Solutions”.

We have no idea of what type of debt solutions the company envisaged.

What we do know, however, is that the application for registration of the company was submitted by a person called ‘Damien Allen Green’ of Kensington, and was signed Matthew Mason as the sole director of the company.



The company’s registered address was the familiar 2 Jackson St Toorak, and its principal place of business was the Carlton Commercial Centre, which it shared with Arrowhead Media Sales.

In 2002, ASIC records show that Nick Church, acting as an agent, submitted a form advising ASIC that the company’s registered address would also move from the Carlton Commercial Centre. Presumably that meant that any ASIC correspondence would be routed through Jackson St. and not end up in the wrong place.



Again, the form was signed “Matthew Mason” as sole director of the company.

Later that year, Church lodged another document advising ASIC that the name of the company had changed to “Training Events”. Maybe the debt solution business hadn’t worked out as they had hoped.

While this form was also signed Matthew Mason, in this case no effort seems to have been made to reproduce any of Mason’s previous signatures.



Matthew Mason has given testimony that when he raised the issues of his name and signature appearing in relation to companies that he had nothing to do with, he was told by Andrew Landeryou that he ‘would fix it’.

Eventually the company applied for voluntary deregistration in 2005.

In this instance, the application for deregistration was lodged by Newell Lock & Co. ( 2 Jackson St Toorak), and while a signature was affixed to Matthew Mason’s name it was also clearly signed by a person different than above.



Just why it was so important to hide the identity of those really behind the company we are not sure - perhaps it was an exercise in charitable giving to a good cause - and the donors wished to remain anonymous. Landeryou has known to be interested in such things, and even backed an enterprise called "citizens against poverty"- more of which we will talk about later.

In the meantime the mind continues to boggle - but never fear the truth seems always to have a way of turning up.

Stay Tuned.