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Old 2nd May 2017, 04:16
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LKinnon
 
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Wow - that's taken a long while to come to market, guess it was held up in the courts. I thought all of this finalised maybe 8 years ago.

Sounds like it's the collection formerly owned by Steve Hart. He ran a large accounting practice that did a lot of dodgy tax work. Cost the ATO > $200m.

He battled the gov for years, but eventually, as the song goes "... I fought the law and the law won ...".

Interesting thing if that all of these aviation assets had been put into an "aviation museum" trust, but I guess the courts saw thru this and grabbed the lot.

In the end I think Steve got done for peripheral charges like insurance fraud. He was 4 years into a 5 year sentence when the gov came back with more charges - which is a sign the gov is really out to get you!
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