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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Luca Ittimani

KPMG appoints chair who claimed leak allegations were ‘completely false’ and called senator’s actions ‘inappropriate’

Michael Ebeid
Newly appointed chair of KPMG, Michael Ebeid, in the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services at Parliament House on 19 June. Photograph: Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images

KPMG has appointed a new chair who previously claimed leak allegations were “completely false” and described a senator’s actions in revealing the scandal as “very inappropriate and unfair”.

Michael Ebeid was appointed to lead the embattled firm on Thursday after the former chair, Martin Sheppard, resigned while under fire from a parliamentary inquiry into the firm’s ethical failings.

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