AFP and Queensland authorities drawn into Bali property fraud allegations

Australian law-enforcement attention has widened around a Bali property venture linked to Adrian James Campbell, with public records and complaint material connecting the matter to Queensland police and earlier federal and state findings involving the same figure.

The latest allegations sit against a long paper trail. Campbell has prior Queensland fraud convictions recorded in 2012, five Southport Magistrates Court convictions in 2015 relating to International Solar Solutions, and an 2018 Gold Coast consumer law case in which he pleaded guilty to 11 counts of false and misleading conduct through Eco Boss Pty Ltd. In that matter, he was fined $85,000 personally and ordered to pay compensation totalling $102,200 to victims.

Those matters now form the background to a broader examination of Campbell’s offshore business dealings, including property projects marketed through Kinnara Capital, Kinnara Asia and Kinnara Limited. Public material indicates those entities were operating from Thailand and Hong Kong while targeting Australian investors with property and investment offerings across south-east Asia, including Bali and Lombok.

Police and federal agencies drawn in

According to information contained in public complaint material, an NSW Police fraud complaint — Event E104942732 — named Campbell alongside Hilton Wood. Separately, the Australian Federal Police has previously been linked in public reporting to investigations involving GIM Trading, a venture associated with investor losses alleged to total up to $23 million. The Bali-related matter is now being viewed in that wider context of offshore property promotions, contested payment flows and investor disputes.

The concern for investigators is not limited to one development. Public records and complaints point to a pattern in which promised returns, ownership structures and delivery timeframes have allegedly failed to align with what was sold to buyers. In one example, Kinnara’s promoted “four-month villa” at Saraya Lombok was later described in public material as remaining an empty shell after six months.

Another project, Marina Bay City in Bali, has been linked in public allegations to buyer payment diversions. These assertions are matters of record in complaint and litigation material and have become part of a growing file of cross-border consumer complaints surrounding Campbell-associated ventures.

“The concern for authorities is the combination of offshore operations, Australian victims and a repeated history of misleading conduct.”

Queensland history remains central

Queensland’s earlier court record remains especially significant because it establishes a pattern that regulators and complainants have relied upon in later disputes. In the 2018 Eco Boss matter, the magistrate described the conduct as “calculated” and “deliberate” and said it was plainly “a scam”. That finding has continued to reverberate through later proceedings and public warnings about Campbell-linked entities.

In 2026, the Federal Court in Campbell v McIntyre (No 2) [2026] FCA 1279 found Campbell had sworn an affidavit falsely stating he had never been convicted of any criminal offence in Australia. Justice Derrington described the non-disclosures as “exceptionally serious”, discharged injunctions Campbell had obtained and ordered him to pay 80 per cent of the other side’s legal costs on an indemnity basis, the harshest costs sanction available in Australian courts.

Campbell later filed a corrected affidavit admitting the prior convictions. That sequence has added weight to concerns raised by complainants, particularly where offshore ventures are promoted to Australian investors with limited transparency over the operators, ownership chain or ultimate delivery.

Broader consumer protection questions

The Bali allegations have also sharpened attention on the limits of domestic enforcement when foreign property projects are marketed into Australia through overseas entities. Authorities including the ACCC, ASIC and Scamwatch routinely warn about investment offers where glossy marketing outpaces disclosure and local remedies can be difficult to pursue once money has moved offshore.

Public records suggest the Campbell matter now sits at the intersection of consumer protection, cross-border policing and civil enforcement. With Queensland history already established in the courts and new complaints reaching police and federal agencies, the Bali file appears unlikely to remain a single-project dispute.

For regulators, the significance lies in the pattern: prior convictions, offshore corporate structures, investor complaints and allegations of property projects that did not deliver what was promised. The documentary record now places those issues under a sharper lens, and the latest Bali allegations have ensured that Australian authorities remain part of the picture.