Home Affairs demanded Paladin CEO quit
The Department of Home Affairs agreed to pay Paladin an extra $109 million just four months after it demanded the resignation of its key executive, according to documents filed in the Federal Court.
The Department of Home Affairs agreed to pay Paladin an extra $109 million just four months after it demanded the resignation of its key executive, according to documents filed in the Federal Court.
Labor has written to the Auditor-General asking for an urgent review of the circumstances surrounding the government's awarding of $423 million of contracts to security firm, Paladin, in a closed tender.
The Department of Home Affairs has pointed the finger at consulting giant KPMG over a decision to appoint the little-known Paladin Group to provide services to refugees on Manus Island.
Multinational giant Toll Holdings was interested in bidding to provide services to refugees on Manus Island when a lucrative contract was abruptly awarded to the little-known Paladin Group.
Paladin, the secretive security firm at the centre of the $423 million contract scandal has a secret office in Canberra, just three kilometres from Parliament House
A closer look at what Home Affairs said during Senate Estimates about Paladin's beach shack, being a "global" company and its founder being denied access to PNG.
Australia's aid policy in the Pacific has been based on improving governance. The Paladin contract is not a good look.
The family of one of PNG's most powerful politicians is directly benefiting from Paladin's $423 million worth of security contracts on Manus Island, awarded by the federal government in a closed tender.
The Paladin Group, which was awarded $423 million in government contracts, has ditched the beach shack on Kangaroo Island as its Australian head office.
"He was very driven, always looking for an angle and I suspect had bigger plans for himself."
Further questions have been raised about $423 million in Commonwealth contracts after the Department of Home Affairs sought to exclude Manus Island security contractor Paladin from FoI laws.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has moved to distance himself from a controversial government contractor, which is providing security on Manus Island, arguing he had "no sight" of the tender process.
The federal government chose not to run an open tender process for contracts worth $423 million to provide security for refugees on Manus Island.
The key beneficiary of a $423 million government contract to provide security for refugees on Manus Island left a string of bad debts and failed contracts across Asia.
The federal government awarded a $109 million contract extension to the firm providing security for refugees at Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, despite allegations of suspicious payments, lying during the tender process and deceptive conduct.
The government has quietly extended one of its most controversial contracts, paying little-known Paladin Group an extra $109 million for security services on Manus Island.
A secretive firm making almost $500 million providing security for refugees at Manus Island was a huge story that got lost in the drama of this week's historic asylum seeker bill, writes Laura Tingle.
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