Following an ASIC investigation into a Gold Coast financial planning firm connected with the Commonwealth Bank, Ricky David Gillespie appeared in the Southport Magistrates Court. He was there on one rolled-up charge alleging the forgery of 31 documents.ASIC alleges that between 1 January 2007 and 13 June 2009, Gillespie, who was a senior financial planner working out of the Broadbeach Commonwealth Bank branch on the Gold Coast, forged the signatures of a number of the bank's clients to whom he was providing financial advice. In an earlier related decision, finalised in November 2012, ASIC permanently banned Gillespie from providing any financial services after it found he forged client signatures and failed to comply with financial services laws.According to ASIC's statement yesterday on the criminal prosecution case now being run against Gillespie, the clients' signatures on documents, including applications for financial products and a series of internal documents, were alleged to have been forged to meet the requirements of the Commonwealth Bank's internal audit process.This current case against Gillespie is being run by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.  The matter has been adjourned for further mention on 4 July 2016.