Liberal Party doyens and the nation's top spies have been caught up in a brutal takeover battle between Australian engineering giant Worley and its Middle Eastern suitor, Dar.
Mr Pyne's lobbying firm GC Advisory now represents the Dar Group.
He's been assisting it as part of his role at the investment bank Rothschild, which was engaged by Dar Group for advice in its takeover bid for Worley.Although Worley has stopped short of publicly airing the claims in its submission to the Foreign Investment Review Board, it has circulated the"confidential" document containing bribery and corruption claims to institutional investors.
The ICIJ report said critics characterised the foundation as"a personal slush fund for Dos Santos that fortifies his myth by crediting him for projects such as building schools that should be funded by the state anywayBut this doesn't compare to allegations levelled against Australian companies such as construction giant Leighton Holdings, which was accused of paying multi-million-dollar bribes to gain work in Iraq as part of the Unaoil scandal, and, in an unrelated scandal, had its...
Although there were no adverse findings against BHP or Mr Harley, the royal commissioner was sceptical about some of his statements, refusing to accept a key part of his evidence.
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