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Friday, October 17, 2025

Let's get Skase

 

 

Let's Get Skase" is a 2001 Australian comedy. It is based on the life of failed Australian businessman Christopher Skase, who after the collapse of his Qintex business fled to Majorca, Spain. Skase died at around the time of the film's release. It was filmed in Melbourne and Perth.

For those of you who don't know who Christopher Skase is, he was a notorious corporate criminal who embezzled a great deal of money from a company in Australia named Qintex that filed for bankruptcy, and then fled to the island of Majorca in Spain. His crimes were overshadowed by the fact that the Australian government and his pursuing creditors couldn't get their hands on him due to the fact that Australia does not share an extradition treaty with Spain, and every time Australia came 'so close' to getting him back, Christopher Skase would have some sort of a 'medical emergency' at the last minute which would deem it unsafe to his health to have him removed from Majorca. He is probably known as one of Australia's most infamous criminals who didn't actually kill or endanger anyone, and his case was dogged by the Australian media for nearly ten years, right up to his death in 2001.

All this came back to me as I listened to ABC Radio National's episodes:

Skase: Fall of a Tycoon

The Confidence Man

Building a Mirage

Flying too close to the sun

The Chase for Skase

The end of the road

Some people insists that Skase even faked his own death and he's still alive, which makes "Let's get Skase" like a movie about Elvis Presley.

 


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