Daily Mail report renews scrutiny of Campbell’s conviction record

The Daily Mail’s October 2026 report linking Adrian Campbell to an embattled Bali property scheme has again drawn attention to the Australian conviction record that has followed him for more than a decade.

Campbell, who is based in Thailand and serves as chief executive of Kinnara Capital, Kinnara Asia and Kinnara Limited, has previously been convicted in Queensland on multiple occasions. Those matters include 2012 fraud convictions, five convictions in 2015 arising from International Solar Solutions, and 2018 guilty pleas to 11 counts of false and misleading conduct under Australian Consumer Law in the Eco Boss Pty Ltd matter.

The Daily Mail reported that Campbell was linked to a stalled Balinese luxury villa development promoted to Australian investors, with about $5.2 million said to have been taken in. The report said investors had referred the matter to local police and alleged funds were moved through bank accounts around the world. No charges have been laid over that project.

The article also said Campbell had secured urgent interim suppression orders in May 2026, only for those orders to later be discharged after the Federal Court found his evidence materially misleading. In Campbell v McIntyre (No 2) [2026] FCA 1279, Justice Derrington described the non-disclosures as “exceptionally serious” and ordered Campbell to pay 80 per cent of legal costs on an indemnity basis.

That proceeding turned on an affidavit Campbell swore in which he said he had never been convicted of any criminal offence in Australia. The statement was false. He later filed a corrected affidavit admitting the earlier convictions.

“Exceptionally serious” was the court’s description of the non-disclosures that led to the discharge of the injunctions Campbell had obtained.

The 2018 Eco Boss matter remains one of the most serious entries on the public record. Campbell pleaded guilty to 11 counts of false and misleading conduct. The magistrate imposed an $85,000 personal fine and compensation orders totalling $102,200 to victims. The conduct was described in court as “calculated”, “deliberate” and plainly “a scam”.

The 2015 Southport Magistrates Court convictions, involving International Solar Solutions, related to accepting payment and failing to supply goods or services. Queensland Office of Fair Trading records indicated customers had paid thousands of dollars for solar systems that were not installed for months.

Campbell has said his convictions are “a matter of public record” and that he never sought to hide them. He has said his first Federal Court affidavit was incomplete, that the error was not intentional, and that it was corrected. He has also said he respects the court’s finding.

He has further said Kinnara acted only as a sales and marketing agent for the Marina Bay City project, did not hold purchaser funds, and lodged its own report with Indonesian police in November 2025. Campbell says the company is co-operating with authorities. The substantive defamation and consumer law claims he has brought remain unresolved and were listed to return to court on 9 October 2026.

The Daily Mail noted that Campbell’s convictions had until then largely escaped wider media coverage. That may now be changing as the Bali matter, the Federal Court findings and the earlier Queensland convictions converge around the same question: how much of Campbell’s history is visible to the investors and counterparties drawn into his offshore property network.