Groves' wife made up forgery claims: court THE wife of former ABC Learning childcare tycoon Eddy Groves signed off for millions in the company's shares then pretended her husband had forged her signature, a judge has ruled. Le Neve Groves was seeking compensation having claimed she never signed over $33 million of ABC Learning shares that were used as a guarantee for bank loans taken out by Mr Groves. The margin loans were granted between 2004 and 2006 before ABC shares plunged in 2008 and the business went into liquidation. Dr Groves said she was entitled to recover the $33 million made by Citibank Singapore, CitiGroup and BT Securities when they sold the shares in 2008. But Supreme Court Judge Glenn Martin on Wednesday dismissed Dr Groves' claim. He found she had signed the relevant documents and "constructed a series of falsehoods" to try to convince the court otherwise. The judge said much of Dr Groves' evidence during a trial earlier this year could not be believed. "In some facets it was exaggerated, in others it was the subject of reconstruction and, in some important matters, it was simply untrue and deliberately so," he said in a written judgement published on Wednesday. Judge Martin said evidence from handwriting experts that the signatures on relevant documents were written by Dr Groves was convincing, and to his own eye they appeared to have been written by her. Dr Groves had sobbed during the trial when giving evidence that her ex-husband was manipulative and physically abusive and had controlled her financial affairs. The judge said he hadn't needed to consider these allegations because Dr Groves had abandoned her claim of undue influence late in the trial.