Securency executive gets trial date
A former sales executive with Securency International will finally get his day in court in May, more than six years after being charged.Clifford John Gerathy faces trial on a charge of false accounting in connection with an agreement for Note Printing Australia to supply polymer banknotes to Bank Negara Malaysia. NPA is a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. NPA held a 50 per cent stake in Gerathy's employer, Securency, at the time of the alleged offence around ten years ago.A two-week trial has been set down in the Supreme Court of Victoria, beginning May 15."I see cooperation at the bar table, that the trial will be conducted," Justice Kevin Bell told a hearing in Melbourne yesterday.