Former FCA Australia Boss Campbell Once Involved In Car Thefts
The Age is reporting former FCA Australia boss, Clyde Campbell, was involved in a car theft ring and brought before the courts in the early ’90s.
According to the report, the former executive currently at the center of a $30 million (AUD) misappropriated funds case was “charged with a number of car theft offences between 1990 and 1992, in the wake of an 18-month investigation by South Australia’s Organised Crime Task Force and Victoria Police,” says Mark Hawthorne of The Age.
In January 1991, a 23-year-old Campbell pleaded guilty to three charges – two of receiving stolen goods, one of obtaining property by deception – after he was found with a stolen vehicle.
Campbell was brought before the courts yet again a year later, this time “implicated in a car theft racket that allegedly stole 10 cars in Adelaide worth $153,000 between May 1989 and September 1990.” He was charged with eight offences at that time, but struck a deal with prosecutors and “pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to a felony, and comforting and harbouring” two of his accomplices.
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Does he have a suspended driver's license and a periodic drug habit? He could just be a GSM at a Chrysler store...
But he could still be a good boss at FCA Australia.
Ahh good old Australia. Unfortunately we see many bosses of his type around here. Being at the top in Australia doesn't equate to being the best.
So really thorough background check by FCA then.