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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:07:38 +1100
From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochrane_at_theage.fairfax.com.au>
Organization: The Age newspaper
To: declan_at_well.com
Subject: Re: FC: Australian charity replies to Politech post on
Microsoft threats
Hi Declan
I thought you and fellow politechboticians would be interested to know
about the ongoing saga with the poor kids down in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
cheers
Nathan
Warrant issued for charity founder
By DAVID ADAMS
Tuesday 23 October 2001
The founder of Geelong-based computer-recycling charity PCs for Kids, Colin
Philip Bayes, has failed to appear in court to answer a fraud-related
offence this month.
An arrest warrant was issued after Mr Bayes, formerly of the Geelong suburb
of Belmont, failed to appear at Geelong Magistrates Court on a charge of
obtaining property by deception between February 6, 1999, and March 16,
1999. Police said he had disappeared.
Police at Geelong criminal investigation unit also want to serve summonses
on Mr Bayes in relation to two further charges of obtaining property by
deception.
A detective said yesterday that all three charges related to the accounts
of PCs for Kids and totalled about $60,000. He also confirmed that a
Mitsubishi Pajero, which was in the charity's name, had disappeared. It is
alleged Mr Bayes has taken the car.
PCs for Kids, founded by Mr Bayes in 1999, recycles old and obsolete
computer parts, rebuilding them into working computers that are then given
to poor or disadvantaged children.
Mr Bayes was recently involved in a dispute with Microsoft after the United
States software giant refused to allow the charity to use its old software
free of charge in refurbished computers.
MORE:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/10/23/FFX6NJ063TC.html
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