$8k wage to missing Mensink
CLIVE Palmer’s elusive nephew is being paid more than $8000 a fortnight by one his uncle’s companies, despite warrants being out for his arrest, a court has heard.
Mr Palmer reappeared in the Brisbane Supreme Court yesterday where he is fighting a high-stakes legal bid by taxpayer-funded liquidators to freeze more than $200 million worth of personal assets.
There, the liquidators’ barrister Shane Doyle QC revealed Clive Mensink was being paid more than $8000 a fortnight by Queensland Nickel Sales up until March this year.
But Queensland Nickel’s sought-after former director has “thereafter ... been paid that precise figure every fortnight by Mineralogy”, Mr Doyle told the court.
Interpol has been enlisted to try to locate Mr Mensink, who hasn’t returned to Australia after leaving in June 2016.
Referring to evidence he gave to the Federal Court earlier this year, which included references to payments to Mr Mensink, Mr Palmer said the material was “unreliable” because he was ill and being treated with morphine.
Mr Palmer also faced questioning about the handwritten notebook, including an August 2015 entry referring to a December 2015 budget as being about “nine months old”, which he said was simply an error.
The government-appointed special purpose liquidators, PPB Advisory, are also seeking freezing orders against the assets of the Palmer-related companies such as QNI Metals, QNI Resources and Mineralogy.