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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus Chief investigations correspondent

Debt collection giant Panthera puts large parts of its business into administration

Australian notes scattered on a table.
Panthera Finance was warned by regulators to cease operating in Victoria. Photograph: pamspix/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Major private debt collector Panthera Finance has appointed new directors and put parts of the company into administration as it seeks to sell off its scandal-plagued business.

Last month, Guardian Australia revealed Panthera, one of the country’s biggest private debt collection firms, had circumvented a blacklisting designed to stop it from operating in Victoria and continued to strike debt purchase deals within weeks of regulatory warnings.

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