Electrical/electronic Manufacturing - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
RFI Industries was a EMI/EMC engineering firm specializing in the manufacturing of shielded rooms and testing of electronic products for worldwide compliance.The company was purchased in 2001 by Maureen Dewar (director) with her new husband Charles Victor Northam acting as shadow director. The company was knowingly traded insolvent from 2007 and was finally liquidated in 2010 after many years of neglect. Company employees entitlements including superannuation contributions and in some cases wages & annual leave were ultimately never paid even though the directors regularly withdrew vast sums of company funds and lived an opulent lifestyle.Charles Victor Northam's business activities are easily found on the internet:Pleaded guilty and was convicted of giving his company financial assistance to purchase the shares in WG Goetz that enabled him to gain control of the company. W.G. Goetz & Sons was a successful manufacturing business that operated in the Footscray area for over 100 years prior to Northam obtaining control. Within 15 months of Northam gaining control external administrators were appointed, and the company was placed into liquidation on 13 October 1999. Charles Victor Northam has pleaded guilty in the Ringwood Magistrates Court to one charge of making, or participating in the making of, decisions affecting a corporation (RFI Industries) whilst disqualified, following an investigation by (ASIC).Northam can be contacted through RFI/EMI Engineers