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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty and Rafqa Touma

Morrison government paid corrupt businessman millions for offshore processing on Nauru

exhausted phosphate mine
Mozammil Gulamabbas Bhojani was convicted of paying more than $120,000 in bribes for favourable deals on phosphate mining contracts. Photograph: Auscape/UIG/Getty Images

The former Australian government continued to pay millions of taxpayer dollars to a businessman convicted of corruption to provide offshore processing services on Nauru, even after he had pleaded guilty to bribing Nauruan government officials.

In August 2020 Mozammil Gulamabbas Bhojani was convicted of paying more than $120,000 in bribes to two Nauru government officials, including an MP and government minister, for favourable deals on phosphate mining contracts for his Radiance International group of companies.

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