FC: Australian "PCs for Kids" charity founder now wanted by cops

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:07:38 +1100
From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochrane () theage fairfax com au>
Organization: The Age newspaper
To: declan () well com
Subject: Re: FC: Australian charity replies to Politech post on 
Microsoft  threats

Hi Declan

I thought you and fellow politechboticians would be interested to know 
about the ongoing saga with the poor kids down in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

cheers

Nathan


Warrant issued for charity founder

By DAVID ADAMS
Tuesday 23 October 2001

The founder of Geelong-based computer-recycling charity PCs for Kids, Colin 
Philip Bayes, has failed to appear in court to answer a fraud-related 
offence this month.

An arrest warrant was issued after Mr Bayes, formerly of the Geelong suburb 
of Belmont, failed to appear at Geelong Magistrates Court on a charge of 
obtaining property by deception between February 6, 1999, and March 16, 
1999. Police said he had disappeared.

Police at Geelong criminal investigation unit also want to serve summonses 
on Mr Bayes in relation to two further charges of obtaining property by 
deception.

A detective said yesterday that all three charges related to the accounts 
of PCs for Kids and totalled about $60,000. He also confirmed that a 
Mitsubishi Pajero, which was in the charity's name, had disappeared. It is 
alleged Mr Bayes has taken the car.

PCs for Kids, founded by Mr Bayes in 1999, recycles old and obsolete 
computer parts, rebuilding them into working computers that are then given 
to poor or disadvantaged children.

Mr Bayes was recently involved in a dispute with Microsoft after the United 
States software giant refused to allow the charity to use its old software 
free of charge in refurbished computers.

MORE:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/10/23/FFX6NJ063TC.html





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