Brian Edward Quinn (6 July 1936 - c.2008/2009)[3][better source needed] was an Australian businessman who was jailed in 1997 for fraud.
[5] An internal company investigation in 1995 exonerated Lew but accused Quinn of helping organise a secret underwriting of the share transaction which cost Coles Myer $18 million.
[6] In 1997, Quinn was charged with fraud after spending almost $4.5 million of shareholder funds on renovations to his mansion home in Templestowe.
[7][8] The renovations, which included a gilded lavatory and other ornate luxuries, were discovered when an accountant realised that invoices supposedly for the maintenance of company property were actually payments to contractors working on the mansion.
[7][12] In 2009, the 73-year-old Quinn was reported to be in ill-health and living with his wife in a luxury apartment in Broadbeach, on Queensland's Gold Coast.