{"id":58031,"date":"2023-09-04T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/04\/queensland-company-accused-of-bribery-in-nauru-says-charge-should-be-dropped-as-fair-trial-impossible"},"modified":"2023-09-04T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:00:16","slug":"queensland-company-accused-of-bribery-in-nauru-says-charge-should-be-dropped-as-fair-trial-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58031","title":{"rendered":"Queensland company accused of bribery in Nauru says charge should be dropped as fair trial \u2018impossible\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: Lawyers for Getax Australia say \u2018unjustified and inexplicable delays\u2019 from the prosecution mean evidence has been lost and essential witnesses have died<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Queensland exporter accused of systematically bribing Nauruan politicians for favourable mining deals on the Pacific island has applied to have a charge of foreign bribery permanently stayed, arguing \u201ca fair trial is impossible\u201d and accusing Australian authorities of mishandling the investigation and losing key evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents obtained by the Guardian reveal that lawyers for Getax Australia Pty Ltd have applied for a permanent stay. If successful, it would effectively permanently halt the company\u2019s prosecution.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/04\/queensland-company-accused-of-bribery-in-nauru-says-charge-should-be-dropped-as-fair-trial-impossible\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Lawyers for Getax Australia say \u2018unjustified and inexplicable delays\u2019 from the prosecution mean evidence has been lost and essential witnesses have diedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA Queensland exp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,645,629,874,680,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-nauru","category-pacific-islands","category-queensland","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58048,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031\/revisions\/58048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}