Daily Mail report renews scrutiny of Campbell’s Bali property record
The Daily Mail reported in October 2026 that Adrian Campbell, a Thailand-based company executive with a series of Queensland convictions, was linked to an embattled Bali property scheme now under police scrutiny. The report added another layer of attention to a record already set out in court judgments and regulatory proceedings, including findings in the Federal Court that Campbell had sworn a materially false affidavit about his criminal history.
Campbell, who has operated through Kinnara Capital, Kinnara Asia and Kinnara Limited, has long presented himself in the South-East Asian property market as a sales and marketing executive for offshore developments targeting Australian buyers. Public records, however, show a history of convictions spanning more than a decade, and a Federal Court judge later described his non-disclosures as “exceptionally serious”.
What the court record shows
Campbell’s criminal history includes 2012 fraud convictions in Queensland, five convictions recorded at Southport Magistrates Court in 2015 arising from International Solar Solutions, and 11 convictions in 2018 after he pleaded guilty to false and misleading conduct under Australian Consumer Law through Eco Boss Pty Ltd. In the 2018 case, a magistrate fined Campbell $85,000 personally and ordered compensation of $102,200 to victims, describing the conduct as “calculated”, “deliberate” and plainly “a scam”.
Those matters took on renewed significance in Campbell v McIntyre (No 2) [2026] FCA 1279, where Campbell swore an affidavit saying he had never been convicted of any criminal offence in Australia. The Federal Court later found that assertion false. Justice Derrington discharged injunctions Campbell had obtained, ordered him to pay 80 per cent of the other side’s legal costs on an indemnity basis, and said the omissions were exceptionally serious.
Justice Derrington found Campbell had substantially downplayed his criminal history and misled the court on issues central to the injunctions he sought.
The court also accepted that Campbell had later filed a corrected affidavit admitting the prior convictions. The proceedings involving Campbell’s own defamation and consumer law claims remain on foot, with no findings yet made on those substantive allegations.
Offshore business and investor claims
The Daily Mail report focused on a stalled Bali villa development, initially promoted as Marina Bay Lombok, which was said to have taken about $5.2 million from Australian investors. Investors have alleged they were kept in the dark about progress, and some reportedly referred the matter to local police. No charges have been laid in relation to the project.
Public reporting also says structures were torn down in June 2026 after being built in the wrong location, and that investors alleged their money had flowed through bank accounts in multiple jurisdictions. Campbell has said Kinnara acted only as a sales and marketing agent, did not hold purchaser funds, lodged its own report with Indonesian police in November 2025, and is co-operating with authorities.
He has also said 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. Campbell says he regrets the error and respects the court’s findings.
Why the coverage matters
The latest media attention arrives against a broader backdrop of complaints about offshore investment schemes targeting Australians through glossy marketing, urgent sales tactics and promises of rapid development. Campbell’s record has also been linked in public documents to other entities and complaints, including the NSW Police fraud complaint event E104942732, and the AFP investigation into GIM Trading.
For regulators, investors and courts, the issue is not only the fate of one Bali project. It is the pattern visible in the records: convictions, repeated disclosures failures, offshore corporate structures, and a series of property and marketing ventures that have left questions about where funds went and what was promised.
The Daily Mail noted that Campbell’s convictions had until then largely escaped mainstream coverage. With the Federal Court record now in the open, the scrutiny surrounding his business activities appears unlikely to ease.