{"id":75326,"date":"2025-11-26T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/nov\/26\/nauru-president-accused-in-parliament-of-corruption-siphoning-off-millions-of-australian-funding"},"modified":"2025-11-26T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:30:11","slug":"nauru-president-accused-in-parliament-of-corruptly-siphoning-off-millions-of-australian-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75326","title":{"rendered":"Nauru president accused in parliament of corruptly siphoning off millions of Australian funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator uses parliament to accuse Albanese government of knowing David Adeang was \u2018seriously corrupt\u2019 yet still signing $2.5bn deportation deal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/nov\/26\/politics-live-labor-epbc-nature-laws-murray-watt-greens-coalition-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-ted-obrien-national-press-club-ndis-fines-cpi-question-time-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/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><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nauru\u2019s President David Adeang, a predecessor and other individuals have been accused in the Senate of corruptly siphoning off millions of dollars of Australian taxpayer money intended for the island\u2019s arcane offshore processing regime.<\/p>\n<p>A previously unreleased report by Australia\u2019s financial intelligence agency, Austrac, suspected Adeang of \u201ccorruption and money laundering\u201d after detecting a \u201crapid movement of large volume and value of funds\u201d, the Senate has been told.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/nov\/26\/nauru-president-accused-in-parliament-of-corruption-siphoning-off-millions-of-australian-funding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator uses parliament to accuse Albanese government of knowing David Adeang was \u2018seriously corrupt\u2019 yet still signing $2.5bn deportation dealFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news pod&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5009,"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":[41,43,1881,388,324,6,629,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-greens","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-business","category-nauru","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75326","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\/5009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75327,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75326\/revisions\/75327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}