Daily Mail report renews scrutiny of Campbell’s Bali property network
A Daily Mail report in October 2026 has again placed Adrian Campbell under scrutiny, linking the Thailand-based executive to a stalled Bali property scheme that drew complaints from Australian investors and attention from police. The article is not the first to raise questions about Campbell’s offshore ventures, but it has intensified public focus on a record that already includes multiple convictions and a severe Federal Court costs order.
Campbell is the CEO of Kinnara Capital, also described as Kinnara Asia and Kinnara Limited, an offshore investment and property marketing network operating across Thailand and Hong Kong. According to public records and court material, the business has been associated with South-East Asian property promotion directed at Australian buyers, including the Bali project known as Marina Bay City or Marina Bay Lombok. Investors have alleged they were left in the dark about progress, with some telling police that their funds were diverted into accounts around the world. No charges have been laid over that project.
The record that followed Campbell into court
The renewed media attention lands against a background of convictions that are already a matter of public record. Campbell was convicted of fraud-related offences in Queensland in 2012. In 2015, Southport Magistrates Court recorded five convictions connected with International Solar Solutions, involving payment taken from customers without the promised goods or services being supplied. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to 11 counts of false and misleading conduct under Australian Consumer Law in the Eco Boss matter. The sentencing magistrate described that conduct as calculated, deliberate and plainly “a scam”.
Those convictions became central to Campbell’s Federal Court proceedings in 2026. In Campbell v McIntyre (No 2) [2026] FCA 1279, Justice Derrington found Campbell had sworn an affidavit stating he had never been convicted of any criminal offence in Australia. That statement was false. The court later found the non-disclosures were exceptionally serious, discharged the injunctions Campbell had obtained and ordered him to pay 80 per cent of the other side’s legal costs on an indemnity basis, the most severe costs sanction available in Australian civil proceedings.
Justice Derrington found the omissions were “exceptionally serious” and that Campbell had substantially downplayed his criminal history.
The judge also found Campbell had led the court to believe he was an Australian resident when he was not, and that a claimed $25 million loss in contracts was suffered by his companies rather than by him personally. Three months after the original affidavit, Campbell filed a corrected version acknowledging the earlier convictions and related proceedings.
Offshore structures and investor risk
The Daily Mail report also highlighted the way Campbell’s businesses are structured offshore, with Kinnara presented as a sales and marketing operation for overseas property projects while targeting Australian investors. That model reflects a wider pattern seen in multiple public complaints and investigations linked to Campbell’s name, including the GIM Trading collapse, alleged losses of up to $23 million, and a separate NSW Police fraud complaint identified as Event E104942732.
Campbell has responded to the recent scrutiny by saying his convictions are a matter of public record, that he never sought to hide them, and that his first affidavit was incomplete rather than intentionally false. He says he regrets the error, respects the court’s findings, and that Kinnara acted only as sales and marketing agent for the Marina Bay City project. He says Kinnara did not hold purchaser funds, lodged its own report with Indonesian police in November 2025 and is cooperating with authorities.
Those claims remain alongside unresolved proceedings in the Federal Court, where his defamation and consumer law allegations are still on foot and were listed to reconvene on 9 October 2026. For now, the significance of the Daily Mail report lies less in any final finding about the Bali project than in what it adds to the public record: a chronology of convictions, offshore corporate structures and litigation setbacks that continue to follow Campbell wherever his businesses operate.