distort the meaning of the conversations. The Commission found that there was no evidence of this. Foster disputed the paper's claims that he had tried to sell his story to Granada Television, though the Press Complaints Commission concluded that as he had appeared to try to sell the story any inaccuracy about the company he had tried to sell the story to was not significant. The commission concluded that The Sun was entitled under the code to express its view that Foster had tried to "ruin" Tony Blair and that the paper had not breached the code when it had claimed on 17 December that Foster had not told the truth in a statement to the press. 2003 Ireland deportation Foster had also spent time living with his mother in Malahide, north of Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland in 2002, selling slimming pills called TRIMit through a company called Bellethos and asking investors to buy franchise rights for €200,000. The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) began investigating him after Australian authorities started proceedings to freeze his assets over frauds involving slimming pills. The CAB liaised with the Serious Fraud Office to examine bank accounts to see if Foster owned them. Foster was deported from Republic of Ireland to Australia in 2003 because of his 1996 UK conviction for fraud. Activity in Australia 2003 to 2006 Chaste Corporation and 2005 penalties On Foster's return from Ireland in 2003, the ACCC moved to freeze his assets and seize his passport over an investigation into the Chaste Corporation and its sale of bogus TRIMit weight loss pills. The company hid Foster's involvement, and its advertising claimed the pills were 700% more effective than their rivals. Foster's business partner, Barrister, Sean Cousins, promoted the pills, kept silent on Foster's involvement in the business and the fact he knew the pills did not work. The scam netted at least $1 million from 70 people who paid up to $42,000 each for the rights to distribute the pills. In September 2005, Foster and Chaste Corporation were fined by the Federal Court for price fixing as well as misleading and deceptive conduct. Foster was also banned for five years from being involved directly or indirectly in any cosmetic, health industry-related or weight-loss business. In 2006, the Federal Court dismissed Foster's appeal against the five-year ban and ordered him to pay the ACCC's court costs. In 2009, Cousins