Catherina De Solieux is one of several Australians taking legal action against banks who oversaw money transfers to the HyperVerse scheme
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Catherina De Solieux was looking forward to a comfortable retirement. She had finished working as a nurse, was paying off her mortgage on a property in regional Victoria and had savings in the bank.
Friends she met through a network marketing group had introduced her to an investment opportunity called HyperFund and she planned to use the returns as a source of retirement income. After initially putting in small amounts, she tipped in $80,000.
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