{"id":2634,"date":"2026-05-01T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/2634\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:00:16","slug":"reza-adib-partner-of-former-queensland-premier-annastacia-palaszczuk-to-be-interviewed-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/2634\/","title":{"rendered":"Reza Adib, partner of former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, to be interviewed by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Vahid Reza Adib, the partner of former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, has arrived at a police station to be interviewed amid an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police yesterday raided a luxury Gold Coast apartment owned by Dr Adib, with detectives and specialist officers searching his unit on Goodwin Terrace at Burleigh Heads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said in a statement that a crime scene has been declared and investigations are ongoing. They would not confirm the nature of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Dr Adib arrived at Southport police station after midday on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The ABC understands that he will be interviewed and that he was requested to take himself to the police station.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vahid Reza Adib at police\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1fd4d4fcae08ab798b8bfae893596195.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Dr Vahid Reza Adib, centre, arrives at Southport police station on Friday. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Dr Adib, a Brisbane-based bariatric surgeon, has been in a relationship with Ms Palaszczuk since 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ms Palaszczuk has this week been promoting her new memoir, The Politics of Being Me, including at an event at the Robina library on Thursday night where she took questions from the audience.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gastric surgeon Reza Adib with Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e5d230c8bd4a030034cc086fd6d4b2f8.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Vahid Reza Adib and Annastacia Palaszczuk pictured in 2023. (ABC News: Kenji Sato)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ms Palaszczuk said she &#8220;was not aware&#8221; of any police investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Friday Ms Palaszczuk cancelled a scheduled radio interview with ABC Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Ms Palaszczuk or Dr Adib.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vahid Reza Adib, the partner of former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, has arrived at a police station to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3228,22,21,1311,1047,211,212,230,3698,3803,3804],"class_list":{"0":"post-2634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-annastacia-palaszczuk","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-austrlia","11":"tag-gold-coast","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-qld","14":"tag-queensland","15":"tag-queensland-police","16":"tag-raid","17":"tag-reza-adib","18":"tag-vahid-reza-adib"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}