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However, he (Clive Palmer) did say she had experience in trade-related matters and was the company representative in Kyrgyzstan.
His involvement with her was “only business”, the court heard. Outside the hearing, he told media the $1 million “wasn’t for her (personally), it was to run the office over there, and to represent and look for mineral opportunities”.
The money paid to her was a massive increase to the annual average wage in Bishkek. And it appears she travelled to Singapore on a private jet chartered by another of Mr Palmer’s companies — at a cost of $250,000 — to meet with him.
Mr Palmer directed his lawyer to object when barrister Walter Sofronoff QC, for liquidators FTI Consulting, began to quiz him about his relationship with a woman named Evgenia Bednova, how often he’d met her, and where.
Mr Sofronoff wanted to know why Mr Palmer’s company Mineralogy had paid a quarter of a million dollars to fly her privately from her homeland to Singapore in 2011, where Mr Palmer was attending a Forbes business conference. |