illegally into Australian bank accounts. Foster claimed that he had taken out the loan to develop a tourist resort on Yasawa Island, but the court found he had transferred funds from the loan account to pay his girlfriend's rent on her Gold Coast home, repay credit card debts and channel funds into family related businesses. He was released on parole at the start of May 2009 after serving eighteen months of a four-and-a-half-year sentence. 2009 Australian legal actions In May 2009, Foster began civil proceedings for damages against Associated Newspapers and a former lawyer. Both applications were dismissed when the judge found Foster, who was representing himself, had failed to serve either defendant, thus obliging Foster to pay A$10,000 in costs. 2011 arrest in Australia On 18 November 2011, Foster was arrested by Australian Federal Police officers and Australian Competition & Consumer Commission officials in relation to diet spray company SensaSlim Australia for misleading and deceptive conduct in breach of the Trade Practices Act. The Therapeutic Goods Administration banned the sale of SensaSlim with effect from 1 December 2011 for advertising breaches. He was released on A$125,000 bail in December 2011. The judge noted that Foster had complied with bail conditions since being released in 2009, was close to his sick mother and that she would benefit from him looking after her. In September 2012 he claimed in court that his only involvement with Sensaslim was to allow a promotional video to be filmed in his house, but denied being involved with production of the DVD. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission claimed that Foster assumed false identities while operating the scam, using the moniker IMOM, or "International Man of Mischief", in a table charting the development of the business and also to denote his own number in his mobile phone. Foster denied creating the table and claimed that the nickname referred to a former business partner. He was charged with contempt of court for breaching the 2005 Federal Court order banning him from taking part in the weight-loss industry. 2012 legal action In January 2012, Foster took out a restraining order against a Gold Coast sports betting scheme proprietor, Philip Cropper, under the Peace and Good Behaviour Act. His solicitor asked the magistrate to regard a summons as having been served after having difficulties serving it, but the magistrate urged that further attempts should be made. Foster accused Philip