Former trade minister's 'wellness' business owes $1 million to underworld figure

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Former trade minister's 'wellness' business owes $1 million to underworld figure
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The loan is interest-free and can be converted to shares at a substantially reduced price

Former Liberal trade minister Andrew Robb is running a health and wellness business partly funded by convicted drug trafficker Shane Charter, the biochemist at the centre of the Essendon and Cronulla football doping scandals.

“I have never met any Andrew Robb,” Mr Charter said. “That loan was with my brother which he assigned from that company when he resigned as director.” GBA director Brett Greene said Craig Charter “is an upstanding businessman” and the entity “had nothing to do with Shane Charter”.Instagram "We don’t do a company search on every investor or lender’s entity after the initial transaction and at no time did we know that the CSC1957 entity shareholders or directors had changed," Mr Greene said."The inference you are making that we know the business dealings between the brothers is not true. We are not aware that they are linked in business in any way. It is slanderous and defamatory to infer so.

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