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Westpac director’s Samoa fund in leaked papers
Steven Harker’s fund is one of many Australian entities detailed in the Pandora Papers, a leak of 11.9 million documents from offshore service providers.
Westpac director Steven Harker, who helped oversee the bank’s 2019 response to failures to report money laundering, has maintained a superannuation fund for decades in Samoa administered by a boutique business entangled in tax-avoidance schemes.
Documents obtained by The Australian Financial Review as part of a global collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists suggest that Harker, a former Future Fund director, borrowed $30 million over a decade from his trust, SJH No. 2.
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