FIAT Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Australia’s case against former chief executive Clyde Campbell will continue later this month when the Federal Court hears the car-maker’s application to freeze the assets of the man accused of misusing more than $30 million of company funds.

The Federal Court last week postponed the interlocutory hearing involving Mr Campbell and the Australian branch of FCA from May 27 to June 19.

In the meantime, the court has ordered that Mr Campbell, his wife Simone Campbell, Kalamazoo Super, and C Campbell Holdings must give the car-maker 14 days’ notice of any dealings with any of the assets mentioned in the draft freezing orders that FCA Australia will ask the court to make on June 19.

Those assets include properties in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton, the town of Freeburgh in north-eastern Victoria and Gilston on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

Also mentioned in the draft freezing orders are the assets of the business known as C Campbell Holdings, including Mr Campbell’s shareholding in and dividends received from it, Mr Campbell’s shareholding in and dividends received from Ryder Property Investments and a bank account in the name of Mr Campbell and his wife Simone.

Under the orders, Mr Campbell may continue to pay regular living expenses and legal costs, but he cannot “remove from Australia or in any way dispose of, deal with or diminish the value” of any of his Australian assets.

As GoAuto reported last week, the American car-maker’s Australian subsidiary has initiated court proceedings against Mr Campbell, alleging misappropriation and misuse of more than $30 million of company funds during his term as managing director (and later CEO) from October 2010 to May 2013.

Among the court filings, the car-maker alleges that vehicles were provided to three celebrity ambassadors in the United Kingdom, without written contracts and without FCA Australia having a commercial presence there.

Another allegation is that My Alfa Romeo, of which Mr Campbell’s wife was a director and shareholder, charged FCA Australia $550,000 for one or more mobile outdoor floating billboards that it never received.

Mr Campbell’s solicitor, Sam Bond, told Fairfax Media last week that the claims against his client are “not only completely denied but considered scandalous”.

“We are confident that, in due course, the allegations will be shown to be wrong and will be embarrassing for FCA,” he is quoted as saying.

Meanwhile, the Football Federation of Australia is reportedly investigating the Melbourne City (formerly Melbourne Heart) soccer team over former star player Harry Kewell’s sponsorship deal with FCA Australia to determine if there are any issues relating to the team’s salary cap.

Last week the Herald Sun published an article reporting that the FFA was given information about the FCA deal when it was signed in August 2012, and that it is querying people who were in the Heart’s management at the the time.

The report also says sports lawyers told the publication that any additional deal not between the player and the club “risked being in breach of salary cap rules”.

GoAuto has requested confirmation of the investigation from FFA.

By Tim Nicholson