Defamation Lawsuit Filed Against McIntyre at Pengadilan Negeri Denpasar

Jamie McIntyre, the Australian developer at the centre of a series of Bali and Lombok property fraud proceedings, is now facing a civil defamation lawsuit filed against him in his own backyard — at Pengadilan Negeri Denpasar, the same court where multiple contractor lawsuits against his company are already active.

The lawsuit, case reference 052/HLF/G/III/2026, was filed by Adrian James Campbell and Kinnara Limited against Jamie McIntyre, Christina Natalia, PT Marina Bay Investment, and PT Bali Real Estate Investment. The proceeding is currently before the court.

The lawsuit arises directly from a campaign of false allegations McIntyre published against Campbell and Kinnara through his fake news network. According to reporting by TechBullion journalist Aftab Ahmad in March 2026, McIntyre’s operation published eight separate articles making serious allegations against Campbell and Kinnara Capital. Each article shared the same characteristics: no independent verification, a single source (Lux Property Group itself), no right of response documented, and the complete omission of McIntyre’s own Federal Court and ASIC regulatory record.

Campbell is a principal of Kinnara Capital and Kinnara Limited, which describe themselves as one of Asia’s premier property marketing platforms operating across 76 global portals in 44 countries. The firm had a commercial relationship with McIntyre’s Lombok operation before that relationship broke down over the Marina Bay City Lombok defaults Kinnara confirmed publicly on 14 March 2026.

What the Official Records Show About the Allegations

The central allegation McIntyre’s fake news network made against Campbell concerned his purported connection to GIM Trading — Global Investment Marketing Pty Ltd — the company liquidated on 5 March 2026 after collecting approximately AUD $23 million from around 80 Australian investors through fake bond products.

Official ASIC Current and Historical Company Extracts, retrieved on 12 March 2026 under section 1274A of the Corporations Act 2001, are definitive. Campbell does not appear at any point in the complete historical records of either entity registered as Global Investment Marketing Pty Ltd — neither ACN 154 898 521 nor ACN 663 732 296. He held no position as director, secretary, shareholder, or officeholder of either entity at any point in their histories. He had no authority over either entity’s funds.

A second official record directly contradicts another McIntyre claim. In the same media release through which he announced a $250 million lawsuit against ASIC and the Australian Government, McIntyre described himself as having acquired 100 per cent ownership of Marina Bay City Lombok. The official Ditjen AHU registry of Indonesia’s Ministry of Law, retrieved 2 March 2026 and entered as evidence in the Denpasar District Court, confirms that PT Marina Bay Group holds a 50 per cent shareholding in the relevant entity. The ownership claim is contradicted by the government’s own corporate registry.

"Eight articles. The same absent evidentiary base. The same single source. The same complete omission of Jamie McIntyre’s Federal Court and ASIC record." — TechBullion, Aftab Ahmad, March 2026.

The Independent Audit Contradicts the ‘Missing Funds’ Claim

Among the allegations published in McIntyre’s fake news campaign was a claim about missing funds connected to Kinnara and Campbell. An independent external audit commissioned by Kinnara Capital and PT Marina Bay Group, completed in March 2026 by a qualified Indonesian auditor, found the opposite. It confirmed that all payment obligations of those entities were met in full, both before and after the Conditional Sale and Purchase Agreement of 24 September 2025, and that no director of those entities took any unauthorised payment or benefit.

The CSPA itself — the Conditional Sale and Purchase Agreement signed on 24 September 2025 — is also relevant to how the allegations should be read. Under Article 7 of that agreement, Campbell and all Sellers were formally released from all project liabilities from 24 September 2025. The Buyer was contractually required to indemnify them against subsequent claims. This means every allegation McIntyre’s network has directed at Campbell about post-September 2025 matters is an allegation about events for which the Buyer’s own signed contract holds current management responsible.

The Hendarman Law Firm Jakarta issued a formal legal clarification on 18 December 2025 addressing the Marina Bay City Lombok project’s corporate structure and payment obligations. That clarification is referenced throughout the TechBullion reporting and forms part of the documentary record before the Denpasar court.

The 11 April 2026 Land Eviction: The Last Development Site

While filing attacks against Kinnara and Campbell, McIntyre’s company was simultaneously losing the land under one of its only confirmed Bali development sites.

A primary source document obtained by Bali Island News — Surat Pemberitahuan Pembatalan Perjanjian Sepihak, Unilateral Cancellation Notice No. 001/2026, dated 11 April 2026, signed by landowners Ni Ketut Kuspini and I Made Prima Negara, and bearing an official Indonesian government materai — confirms the formal termination of PT Bali Real Estate Investments’ 20-year lease over a Bali development site in Badung.

The reason is non-payment. The fourth scheduled instalment of Rp 2,050,000,000, due 25 January 2025, was not paid. The fifth instalment of the same amount, due 25 April 2025, was also not paid. Over fourteen months elapsed between the first missed payment and the cancellation notice. The total unpaid is Rp 4,100,000,000 — approximately AUD $380,000 in land rent that the company simply did not pay.

The document states that as of 11 April 2026, PT Bali Real Estate Investments has no rights whatsoever over the land. Everything built on it reverts to the landowners in its current condition. The company has one month to vacate.

"As a result of such cancellation, the Second Party has no rights whatsoever over the land in question, and the First Party has the right to receive back the land together with everything upon it in its current condition." — Article 2, Agreement No. 3730/W/NOT/III/2026, as cited in Cancellation Notice 001/2026, 11 April 2026.

The same development site had already been the subject of a Satpol PP Badung stop-work order in December 2025, after inspectors found the 70-unit development had no PBG building permits. Workers defied that order and returned to the site in January 2026. The company was building, without permits, on land for which it had stopped paying rent more than a year earlier.

The Pattern: Attack Outward, Collapse Inward

The simultaneous occurrence of McIntyre’s attack campaign against Campbell and Kinnara and the collapse of his own Bali operation reflects a pattern that has appeared consistently throughout the documented record.

In 2015, when ASIC was obtaining urgent injunctions against McIntyre’s Pilbara scheme, his companies issued public statements claiming that ASIC wished to damage him for being a whistleblower against regulatory misconduct. In November 2025, while Indonesian contractors were filing lawsuits against his company and landowners were preparing to serve the eviction notice that would formally strip his company of its last Bali development site, he announced a $250 million lawsuit against ASIC, Fairfax Media, and the Australian Government. The announcement was published on cnbsnews.live — his own fake news domain mimicking CNBC.

In each case, the outward aggression — against ASIC, against regulators, against former business partners, against witnesses in criminal proceedings — is timed to the inward collapse of the actual operation. The attack content is produced while payments go unmade, permits go unobtained, and the infrastructure of the business falls away.

Kinnara Capital and PT Marina Bay Group described the campaign precisely in their 14 March 2026 official statement, calling it a deliberate strategy to deflect from the mismanagement of client funds and the failure to honour obligations to investors, contractors, and development partners.

All Active Proceedings in Bali: April 2026

As of today, 22 April 2026, the proceedings against McIntyre and his associated entities active at Bali’s courts and enforcement bodies include the following.

At Ditreskrimsus Polda Bali, the Special Crimes Investigation Directorate, a criminal fraud report has been filed under Article 492 KUHP naming Barry Kevin Grossman — McIntyre’s Bali representative, not registered with PERADI — as the suspect. Criminal prosecution proceedings against McIntyre himself were expected by April 2026. The bank records of PT Bali Real Estate Investments, provided by former director Christina Natalia, form the evidentiary foundation of that investigation.

At Pengadilan Negeri Denpasar, the Denpasar District Court, three separate civil matters are active. The contractor lawsuit filed by PT Lingkar Jaya Bali (Case 1536/Pdt.G/2025/PN Dps) over unpaid invoices for more than 100 workers’ labour on a 70-unit development remains before the court. A further civil claim was filed on 14 March 2026. And the civil defamation case brought by Campbell and Kinnara (ref. 052/HLF/G/III/2026) is now before the court as well.

The Satpol PP Badung stop-work order over the Kerobokan Kelod development — issued in December 2025 and defied in January 2026 — remains an active enforcement matter.

And the Unilateral Cancellation Notice of 11 April 2026 has stripped the company of all rights to the land underpinning the Kerobokan Kelod development, with a one-month vacate deadline now running.

In Australia, ASIC, AUSTRAC, and the AFP are all conducting active enquiries that remain open.

Sources: Civil defamation case ref. 052/HLF/G/III/2026, Pengadilan Negeri Denpasar; TechBullion — Aftab Ahmad, 11 and 16 March 2026; ASIC section 1274A Company Extract, 12 March 2026; Ditjen AHU Registry, Indonesia Ministry of Law, 2 March 2026 (entered as court evidence); Kinnara Capital and PT Marina Bay Group independent external audit, March 2026; Hendarman Law Firm Jakarta clarification, 18 December 2025; Kinnara Limited official statement, 14 March 2026; Surat Pemberitahuan Pembatalan Perjanjian Sepihak No. 001/2026, 11 April 2026 (Agreement No. 3730/W/NOT/III/2026); Ditreskrimsus Polda Bali criminal report (2026); Denpasar District Court records; Bali Terkini, 12 January 2026; ASIC v McIntyre [2016] FCA 1276.