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The billionaire, the mine, the minority stake and her lover

It’s 14 years since Gina Rinehart transferred ownership of a company to her late lover. The company controls a stake in her next big mine, but who controls it?

Peter Ker
Peter KerResources reporter

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Around the time Gina Rinehart’s lover Robert Sparke died on January 10, 2013, one piece of his personal estate passed to an accountant named Shoou-Jong Jabez Huang, rather than Mr Sparke’s children or grandchildren.

Mr Huang was a little-known finance executive within Mrs Rinehart’s private empire in 2012, when according to official records, he took full ownership of Mr Sparke’s company Outback WA Pty Ltd.

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Peter Ker covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Melbourne. Connect with Peter on Twitter. Email Peter at pker@afr.com

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