Friday 18 November 2022 09:50 AM Melissa Caddick disappearance: Christian Dior join legal battle over alleged ... trends now

Fashion brand Christian Dior have stunned investigators by offering new information in the legal battle over missing conwoman Melissa Caddick's lost fortune.

Caddick, 49, disappeared two years ago on November 12, 2020, after Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigators and federal police raided her luxury Dover Heights home in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

They seized designer clothing and valuable assets during the raid as they probed allegations she had tricked investors out of $23 million.

Now the Paris-based haute couture label has contacted the Federal Court to reveal it is holding assets and cash they received from the financial advsor with expensive tastes.

Caddick vanished the morning after the ASIC raid when she apparently went out for an early morning run and was never seen again.

Three months later, in February 2021, her decomposing severed foot washed up on Bournda Beach 500km south of Sydney, and she has since been presumed dead.

This year an inquest into her disappearance was launched at the same time an ASIC-led Federal Court case against the alleged conwoman.

On Tuesday photographs of the ASIC raid were released showing multiple Christian Dior items as well as diamond and sapphire rings.

On Friday the Federal Court heard Christian Dior was seeking leave to be involved in the case against Caddick as it was holding money and documents in her name.

The Daily Telegraph report Christian Dior wants the court to order 'all funds held in the account held in the name of Melissa Louise Caddick' to be deposited into an account nominated by the receivers acting in the place of Caddick in

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