The Australian man arrested by an FBI SWAT team yesterday in Louisville, Kentucky, over the collar-bomb hoax at the Sydney home of the Pulver family, appears to have strong links to the IT world.Paul “Doug” Peters, 50, is said to have been a director of the ill-fated Allco Finance Group which collapsed in 2008. Allco had been deeply involved in financing the $400 million deal by which Australian e-health company IBA Health acquired iSoft of the UK (and later renamed itself iSoft) – only to collapse and be acquired in recent weeks by CSC of the US.
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On a LinkedIn profile Peters lists himself as MD of Douglass Corporation, described in some reports as “formerly the now defunct Allco Finance Group”.
Two NSW Police officers accompanied the FBI team when it raided the home in Louisville yesterday. They will seek his extradition to Sydney to face charges of breaking and entering, kidnapping and other alleged offences.
Australian schoolgirl Madeleine Pulver, 18, had a fake bomb chained to her neck by a man who entered her family home in the Sydney suburb of Mosman on August 3 in what is alleged to be have been an extortion attempt.
Her father William Pulver is CEO of North Sydney-based Appen Butler Hill, which markets voice recognition and psychometric analysis software.
