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<\/p>\nA forensic audit of billionaire Clive Palmer\u2019s legal bills uncovered \u201csophisticated altering of the invoices\u201d to steal $30 million from the mining magnate\u2019s company, a court has heard, triggering his long-time solicitor to hand in his practising certificate.<\/p>\n
The polarising former federal MP and Trumpet of Patriots chairman alleges Sam Iskander, who had represented Palmer in legal matters as recently as this year through his firm Alexander Law, stole tens of millions of dollars from his mining company Mineralogy between 2016 and July.<\/p>\n
The Queensland Law Society confirmed Iskander had surrendered his practising certificate following the accusations being aired, with the long-time solicitor consenting through legal counsel in the Supreme Court on Friday to account freezing and injunctive orders.<\/p>\n
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Clive Palmer has been politically active in recent years with enormous donations to his campaigns.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
This masthead does not suggest the allegations are true, merely that the accusations had been made.<\/p>\n
Justice Melanie Hindman outlined details of a forensic audit included in an affidavit when approving the application, describing the allegations as \u201cobviously extremely serious\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems there\u2019s been some sophisticated altering of the invoices, so to someone receiving the amended invoices there\u2019s nothing on their face that will point out there\u2019s been some sort of doctoring involved,\u201d the judge told the court.<\/p>\n
In one supposedly doctored invoice in March, the listed fee for work was listed at $7500, but this was allegedly amended to $20,625.<\/p>\n
\u201cA very significant difference in just one item on one account,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Hindman also referred to another example where, \u201cperhaps more disturbingly\u201d, an invoice originally showed there was no charge for an hour of legal work before being amended to include a fee that was allegedly paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A forensic audit of billionaire Clive Palmer\u2019s legal bills uncovered \u201csophisticated altering of the invoices\u201d to steal $30…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-129693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114994521698615528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}