AUT: LL:SMH: Gov't knew of Dubai from June - ex-soldier FYNWEST REVELATION Thursday, April 30, 1998

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>Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 07:30:25 +1000
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>Subject: LL:SMH: Gov't knew of Dubai from June - ex-soldier
>     FYNWEST REVELATION
>     Thursday, April 30, 1998
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>Govt knew of Dubai from June: ex-soldier
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>     By ANNE DAVIES in Canberra
>
>     The man who now owns Fynwest - the company involved in the Dubai
>     waterfront affair last year - has claimed he has explosive
>     documents which show a senior government official was intimately
>     involved in the plan to train non-union labour in Dubai.
>
>     The ABC's 7.30 Report revealed last night that Mr Andrew Harris, a
>     former Special Air Services officer, had bought the company and was
>     offering it and its documents for sale.
>
>     Mr Harris, the Victorian president of the ex-SAS Association, said
>     he was trying to sell the documents because several former and
>     serving SAS officers involved in the failed Dubai scheme had been
>     "badly hurt by the affair."
>
>     "The documentation I have clearly indicates the government official
>     was aware of all the activities of Fynwest, Container Management
>     Services and Patrick stevedoring from before June last year," he
>     said.
>
>     An ACTU vice-president, Mr Greg Combet, said he had been offered
>     the documents two weeks ago for more than $1 million but had turned
>     them down.
>
>     The Minister for Workplace Relations, Mr Reith, said in Parliament
>     in December when the Dubai plan became public that he had no
>     knowledge of a scheme to train serving army personnel in Dubai. He
>     has also said his staff had no knowledge of the plan.
>
>     He said he stood by his statements yesterday.
>
>     Mr Harris said the company was now for sale, along with documents
>     through its law firm, Adams McGuire Sier.
>
>     The chief executive of Patrick stevedores, Mr Chris Corrigan, who
>     admitted in February he masterminded the Dubai affair, rejected his
>     offer to buy the documents, Mr Harris said.
>
>     Dubai is likely to be a central issue in the maritime union's case
>     of unlawful conspiracy against Patrick and the Government.
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