A judge has rejected sweeping suppression orders sought by the founders of vitamin giant Natureâs Care over documents in a $200 million tax debt stoush with the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, instead making limited suppression orders in light of the âseriousâ allegations made in the case.Â
The wife of a billionaire developer targeted in a $272 million proceeding by the Australian Taxation Office has lost a bid for suppression orders over the affidavits of a tax official she said would cause the couple to suffer reputational and commercial harm.
Twitter personality Alan Davison, who runs the account Stock Swami, has admitted he misled lawyers for mining investor Tolga Kumova and deliberately failed to obey court orders for discovery in cross-examination during a defamation trial.Â
The man behind the Stock Swami Twitter account is flying to Sydney for cross-examination after a judge halted a trial in mining investor Tolga Kumovaâs defamation case, saying he had âno confidence whatsoeverâ the Twitter user complied with discovery obligations.
A judge has halted a defamation trial in a case brought by mining investor Tolga Kumova after saying he had âno confidence whatsoeverâ that the owner of Twitter account Stock Swami complied with discovery obligations.
Former Young Rich Lister Tolga Kumova sold $24 million worth of shares in mining company after publishing positive social media posts about its prospects, a court has heard in a defamation trial over allegations he engaged in insider trading and pumping and dumping.Â
A judge has pulled up a law firm over a tweet it published about defamation proceedings brought by investor Tolga Kumova, telling a barrister during the trial Thursday to counsel his instructing solicitors about the âhighly unsatisfactoryâ social media post.
Former Young Rich Lister Tolga Kumova has admitted to publishing an inaccurate tweet about the value of a mineral resource owned by a zinc producer of which he was a director, agreeing at trial in his defamation case that he was off by $4.8 billion.
The ATO has secured freezing orders on $220 million in capital gains tax arising from the $19 billion private equity sale by China’s State Grid of its substantial shareholding in energy infrastructure giant AusNet.
The High Court has granted the ATOâs bid to impose a worldwide freezing order against Chinese property developer Changran Huang, saying the courtâs power to freeze assets did not depend on whether there was a realistic possibility of enforcing a judgment in a foreign jurisdiction.