Just one month after the Home Affairs Department signed the contract, police arrested Mozammil Bhojani and charged him with paying more than $100,000 in bribes.
The Home Affairs Department handed a multimillion-dollar offshore detention contract to an Australian businessman just one month after federal police told then minister Peter Dutton that the man was under investigation for bribery.
Despite the federal police attention and Bhojani’s conviction, Radiance International continued providing services on Nauru until at least June this year. Bhojani ceased to be a director of the company shortly after his 2020 conviction. The new information comes after Home Truths revealed that a chain of suspect contracts worth millions of dollars led from the Home Affairs Department to powerful Pacific Island politicians.
The revelations also put pressure on Labor’s minister Clare O’Neil to explain how she will clean up the system, which she has promised to overhaul, after Radiance contracts continued until June this year, well into her time in office. The communications show that AW Exports was price gouging on the Home Affairs contract by charging excessive mark-ups on goods. Soap flakes, for example, were being sold at a 30 per cent mark up, and the company was also charging an “admin fee” on top.
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